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Ian Haney-Lopez

Ian Haney-López is a law professor and the author of "Dog Whistle Politics: How Fifty Years of Coded Racial Appeals Wrecked the Middle Class." Follow him on Twitter @DogWhistleRace.

Ronald Reagan, Paul Ryan (Reuters/Mary Calvert/photo collage by Salon)

It’s worse than Paul Ryan: The right has a new ugly, racial dog whistle

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. testifies before the Senate Government Operations subcommittee, Dec. 15, 1966. (AP)

How conservatives hijacked “colorblindness” and set civil rights back decades

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Ronald Reagan (AP)

The racism at the heart of the Reagan presidency

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Richard Nixon, Rand Paul (AP/Ed Reinke/Photo collage by Salon)

How the GOP became the “White Man’s Party”

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Mexican Mitt

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