Do 40-Year-Old Facts Still Matter? Long-Run Effects of Federal Oversight under the Voting Rights Act
In 2013, the Supreme Court struck down parts of the Voting Rights Act that mandated federal oversight of election laws in discriminatory…
In her memoir, Power offers an urgent response to the question "What can one person do?" and a call for a clearer eye, a kinder heart, and…
On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the…
Whether it is defining Native Americans as non-citizens in 1800 or introducing a “mulatto” category in 1850, the classification of race and…
This article studies the conditions that lead peripheral minorities to identify with the state, their ethnic group, or neighboring…
Monitors report that many elections around the world are flawed by problems of corruption and violence – sometimes both. These malpractices…
“Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s is a powerful and inviting collection of Tiffany Midge’s musings on life, politics, and identity as a…
“In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the…
“On a winter morning in 1990, Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota picked up the Bismarck Tribune. On the front page, a small girl gazed…
“The received idea of Native American history -- as promulgated by books like Dee Brown’s 1970 mega-bestselling Bury My Heart at Wounded…