NOTES

WHAT COLIN KAEPERNICK TAUGHT US

1. Felicia Sonmez, “Trump Suggests That Protesting Should Be Illegal, Washington Post, September 5, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-suggests-protesting-should-be-illegal/2018/09/04/11cfd9be-b0a0-11e8-aed9-001309990777_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.17af1870bd41.

IT’S OK TO CRITICIZE THE MILITARY

1. Defense Logistics Agency, “1033 Program FAQs,” https://www.dla.mil/DispositionServices/Offers/Reutilization/LawEnforcement/ProgramFAQs.aspx.

2. John McCain and Jeff Flake, Tackling Paid Patriotism: A Joint Oversight Report by U.S. Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake (Washington, DC: US Senate, 2017).

3. Melvin A. Goodman, National Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2013), 144.

4. Neta C. Crawford, The Costs of War: United States Budgetary Costs of Post-9/11 Wars Through FY2018 (Providence: Watson Institute of International & Public Affairs, Brown University, November 2017), 3.

5. Goodman, National Insecurity, 316–17.

6. Crawford, The Costs of War, 7.

7. Goodman, National Insecurity, 33.

THE LOST TRIBE OF INTEGRATION

1. Barry Bluestone and Mary Huff Stevenson, The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space, and Economic Change in an American Metropolis (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2000), 190.

THE MEDIOCRE WHITE BOY

1. Leanne E. Atwater et al., “Looking Ahead: How What We Know about Sexual Harassment Now Informs Us of the Future,” Organizational Dynamics (2018), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orgdyn.2018.08.008.

2. Laila Robbins and Alicia Bannon et al., State Supreme Court Diversity: Across the Country, Courts Fail to Reflect the Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Diversity of the Communities They Serve (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, New York University School of Law, July 23, 2019), https://www.brennancenter.org/publication/state-supreme-court-diversity.

3. The Asian American Vote 2016: A Report by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (New York: AALDEF, 2017), https://www.aaldef.org/uploads/TheAsianAmericanVote2016-AALDEF.pdf; “Exit Polls,” Election 2016, CNN Politics, updated November 23, 2016, https://www.cnn.com/election/2016/results/exit-polls/national/president.

RENTERS

1. Carol Anderson, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (New York: Bloomsbury, 2016), 3.

2. Martha S. Jones, Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018), 47.

3. Ronald Takaki, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America (New York: Back Bay, 2008), 237.