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Citations and Further Reading:
The cruel kids’ table
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/inauguration-trump-supporters-conservative-movement-post-maga.html
The list
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2025/nsf-trump-administration-restrictions/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/02/04/national-science-foundation-trump-executive-orders-words/
https://youtu.be/K_mbSTfvlUE?t=617
The Reconstruction Era and Jim Crow
https://www.history.com/news/jim-crow-laws-black-vote
Statistics
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/white-workers-more-likely-to-get-good-jobs-at-every-level-of-education/2019/10
https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2014/06/27/white-high-school-drop-outs-are-as-likely-to-land-jobs-as-black-college-students/
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/white-workers-more-likely-to-get-good-jobs-at-every-level-of-education/2019/10
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities/2025/01/02/ten-facts-about-wealth-inequality-in-the-usa/
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/discrimination-and-barriers-to-well-being-the-state-of-the-lgbtqi-community-in-2022/#:~:text=individuals%20reporting%20discrimination.-,Figure%201,-All%20survey%20respondents
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/fact-sheet-lgbt-workers-in-the-labor-market/#:~:text=higher%20rates%20of%20poverty%2C%20unemployment%2C%20and%20public%20benefits%20use.
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/fact-sheet-lgbt-workers-in-the-labor-market/#:~:text=LGBT%20households%20are,less%20than%20%2425%2C000.
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/content/who-is-us-immigrant
https://www.nber.org/papers/w32389
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/NOTES/pdf_notes/note151.pdf
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/08/1237103158/immigrants-are-less-likely-to-commit-crimes-than-us-born-americans-studies-find
https://siepr.stanford.edu/news/mythical-tie-between-immigration-and-crime
https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916221082111
Jo Ellis
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/11/washington-dc-plane-crash-diversity-trans-jo-ellis
Frontlash, not backlash
https://books.google.com/books?id=bqZdEAAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover (Ch.14)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/white-backlash-nothing-new/611914/
Democrats on immigration
https://jacobin.com/2025/02/democrats-trump-immigration-deportation-guantanamo
Racial capitalism
https://books.google.com/books?id=XubaDwAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover
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