Joel Wendland-Liu

Joel Wendland-Liu teaches courses on diversity, intercultural competence, migration, and civil rights at Grand Valley State University in West Michigan. He is the author of "Mythologies: A Political Economy of U.S. Literature, Settler Colonialism, and Racial Capitalism in the Long Nineteenth Century" (International Publishers) and "The Collectivity of Life" (Lexington Books).

LATEST ARTICLES BY Joel Wendland-Liu

U.S.

Fox News: Still Unfair and Unbalanced
August 16, 2009 By Joel Wendland-Liu
In addition to some of its major personalities promoting disruptions and even violence at congressional town hall meetings, the guests and commentators invited to appear on its programs seem to overwhelmingly oppose health reform as well.
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U.S.

Right-wing terror groups on the rise
August 14, 2009 By Joel Wendland-Liu
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Timothy McVeigh, the perpetrator of the single largest act of domestic terrorism in US history in Oklahoma City in 1995, stands only as the most well-known right-wing militia member.
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U.S.

Death panels, euthanasia, abortion: health care fiction and facts
August 13, 2009 By Joel Wendland-Liu
Death panels. Euthanasia. ACORN. Abortion. Immigrants. An insurance industry-backed right-wing smear campaign wants to inject these highly emotional terms into the health reform debate in order to scare people into opposing a major overhaul of the...
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Profile of a Hollywood blacklist victim
December 22, 2006 By Joel Wendland-Liu
The Hollywood blacklist of communist and suspected communist writers, actors, directors and others is widely viewed as having been an unconstitutional attack on civil liberties and political rights. Few people understand the basis on which the...
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