- Climate Refugees: The Climate Crisis and Rights Denied
- Press Release
- Media Coverage
- Web Report
- Executive Summary
- Glossary of Terms
- Introduction
- Spotlight: Tuvalu
- Background and Context
- Sea-Level Rise and Forced Migration
- Spotlight: Afghanistan
- Spotlight: Yemen
- Spotlight: The Northern Triangle
- Gaps in the Present Protection Regime
- Spotlight: Ethiopia
- Interview: Bertha Isabel Zuniga Cáceres
- Spotlight: Haiti
- Spotlight: Somalia
- Food Insecurity and Food Refugees
- Gaps in Political-Economic Understanding
- Spotlight: Lake Chad Basin
- Corporate Power, State Violence, and Land Defenders
- Spotlight: Myanmar
- Spotlight: Sri Lanka
- Interview: Nnimmo Bassey
- Agriculture, Decarbonization, and the Climate Crisis
- The way forward
- Global Justice
- Inclusiveness Index
- Financialization
- Human Rights Agenda
- Glocal Food Systems
- Trade and Development
- Global Migration
- Shahidi Project
- Nile Project
- Islamophobia
- About
- Database
- Legalizing Othering
- Expert Interviews
- Q&A with Laila Abdelaziz
- Q&A with Abed Awad
- Q&A with Baher Azmy
- Q&A with Hatem Bazian
- Q&A with Zahra Billoo
- Q&A with Nour Bouhassoun
- Q&A with Evelyn Glenn
- Q&A with Jehan Hakim
- Q&A with Saeed Khan
- Q&A with Karen Korematsu
- Q&A with Dalia Mogahed
- Q&A with Stephen Piggott
- Q&A with Mark Potok
- Q&A with Muna Sharif
- Q&A with Hassan Shibly
- Q&A with Samia Shoman
- Expert Interviews
- Reading Resource Pack
- Young American Muslims and Belonging
- Introduction
- Theorizing the Field
- Politics and Foreign Policy
- Legal System and National Security
- Mainstream and Digital Media
- Othering, Discrimination, and Hate Crimes
- Gendered Dimensions
- Health and Community Well-being
- Geography and the Public Space
- Counter-Narratives and Strategies
- Housing Policy and Belonging in Richmond
- Preface
- This is home (poem)
- Introduction
- About the Staying Power Project
- Foundations of a Housing Crisis
- By the Numbers: Housing Needs
- Have you noticed any change lately? (poem)
- Guiding Laws and Plans
- Recent Housing Policy Developments
- Doors in my Face (poem)
- Housing Policies for Belonging
- Reusable Tenant Screening Report Ordinance
- Preventing Source of Income Discrimination
- Affordable Housing Bonds
- Public Land Policy
- Affordable Housing Linkage Fees
- Expanding Transitional and Supportive Housing
- Community-Owned Development Enterprise
- Anti-Speculation Tax
- Conclusion
- Just Public Finance
- Measuring Water and Sewer Service Affordability
- Network for Transformative Change
- Civic Engagement Narrative Change
- Commissioned Papers
- CE1 - When Boom Goes Bust
- CE2 - Little Haiti is Fighting Climate Change
- CE3 - Racial Equity in Service to Collective Impact and Movement Building
- CE4 - Trusting the Leadership and Power of Latinx Communities
- CE5 - Ending Electoral Sharecropping
- CE6 - Identity Politics: Friend or Foe?
- Paper Collection PDF
- Podcast
- Surveying Black Women Voters in Nevada
- Alicia Garza on Identity Politics and the 2020 Election
- Mobilizing for Census 2020
- Voter Suppression in the 2018 Georgia Race
- API Engagement with Luisa Blue
- Desmond Meade on Voting Rights Restoration
- Abandonment in Detroit with Peter Hammer and Amina Kirk
- The US Census with Michael Omi
- About
- Baseline Surveys
- Videos
- Tools and Resources
- Commissioned Papers
- Blueprint for Belonging
- About Blueprint for Belonging
- Audio: The Battle of the Narratives
- California Survey on Othering and Belonging
- Blueprint for Belonging Videos
- Curriculum
- Blueprint for Belonging Papers
- Mind Sciences and Creating New Narratives
- Building a Strategic Narrative for All of California
- Corporate Democrats and the Corporate Power Structure in California Politics
- The California Story
- The Role of Government
- Shifting the Narrative
- California Dog Whistling
- Faith Communities as Partners of Hope
- Changing Our Narrative About Narrative
- A 21st Century Movement-Building Challenge
- Building A Real Sharing Economy
- Race-Based but Not Race-Bound
- The Next California
- Inland Empire Paper Series
- Technology & Belonging
- Bridging and Breaking
- Civic Engagement Narrative Change
- News Magazine
- Fall 2019 Issue
- Message from Director john powell
- Message from Associate Director Denise Herd
- Intensive Fellowship Trains Policymakers and Advocates in Confronting Islamophobia
- Making The Dream Reality: Talking School Integration With Rucker Johnson
- It's Been 400 Years: Berkeley Commemorates Slavery Anniversary
- Tackling Public Health Possibilities and Misconceptions in Rural America
- Recent Writing on the Causes, Consequences, and Politics of Racial Segregation
- Spring 2019 Issue
- Unfinished Business
- A Message from Director of the Haas Institute
- A Message from the Associate and Faculty Director of the Haas Institute
- Book Review: The Lies That Bind
- Gender Studies Scholar Eric Stanley on Trans Visibility and Resistance
- In Discussion with Christine Wong Yap
- Local Views
- Perspectives from the Sixth Summer Fellowship Cohort
- Spring 2018 Issue
- Economist Hilary Hoynes named to Academy of Arts & Sciences
- Us, Reimagined
- Faculty Profile: Chris Zepeda-Millan on Immigration and Racialization in the Era of Trump
- Reinventing the Wheelchair
- Book Review: Three Works About Inequality Converge on Similar Policy Agenda
- What Comes Next? Voting and the Electorate in 2018 and Beyond
- Fall 2017 Issue
- Faculty News
- Campaign
- Directors' Notes
- Features
- Media Room
- Perspectives
- Projects & Programs
- Fall 2019 Issue
- Notes on a Cultural Strategy for Belonging
- Podcast: Who Belongs?
- About
- Episodes
- EP 35 - The economic case for a $15 minimum wage
- EP 34 - How ICE uses tech against immigrants
- EP 33 - Storming the Capitol and the dilemma of Trumpism
- EP 32 - The struggle against Islamophobia in France
- EP 31 - Why did Newsom veto ethnic studies?
- EP 30 - Can we avert mass evictions?
- EP 29 - Trump's attack on fair housing
- EP 28 - Settler colonialism, 1960s revolts, & today
- EP 27 - Can we have a future without police?
- EP 26 - Toppling statues of racists and colonizers
- EP 25 - "It's not just murder. It's terror." (on George Floyd)
- EP 24 - 'Freedom v. Equality': the clash over reopening the economy
- EP 23 - Racism and COVID-19
- EP 22 - Bay Area food bank responds to COVID-19
- EP 21 - ICE raids, farmworkers, & COVID-19
- EP 20 - Bernie Sanders & the Race-Class Message
- EP 19 - Surveying Black Women Voters in Nevada
- EP 18 - #400Years of Resistance to Slavery
- EP 17 - Alicia Garza on Identity Politics and Election 2020
- EP 16 - Mobilizing for Census 2020
- EP 15 - Crossing Baltimore's Racial Divide
- EP 14 - Voter Suppression in Georgia
- EP 13 - Places of Belonging, with Christine Wong Yap
- EP 12 - Migration and Gentrification in Europe
- EP 11 - Engaging Asian Pacific Islanders
- EP 10 - john a. powell on Targeted Universalism
- EP 9 - Prisoner Reentry with Prof. David Harding
- EP 8 - The US Census with Michael Omi
- EP 7 - Abandonment in Detroit
- EP 6 - Desmond Meade on Voting Rights Restoration
- EP 5 - On Hunger, Poverty, and Food Stamps
- EP 4 - Racial Justice Activism in Europe
- EP 3 - Monitoring Corporate Agribusiness
- EP 2 - Nicole Montojo and Steve Barton on Rent Control
- EP 1 - Gordon Whitman on Community Organizing
- EP 0 - Ralf Hotchkiss on Wheelchair Design
- Post-Election 2016
- Race & Inequality in America: The Kerner Commission at 50 conference
- "The Road Not Taken" post-conference report
- Media coverage
- Speakers' post-conference perspectives
- #Kerner50 videos
- Conference Program
- Registration and Logistics
- Prominent lineup of experts, officials to headline UC Berkeley race conference
- 1968 Kerner Report
- Key Kerner Commission Recommendations
- Arts & Culture
- Racial Segregation in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Reports
- Part 1: Segregation
- Part 2: Demographics
- Part 3: Measuring Segregation
- Part 4: Effects of Segregation
- Part 5: Remedies, Solutions, and Targets
- Zoning Report
- Most Segregated Cities in the Bay
- A History of Racially Exclusionary Housing
- Tools & Resources
- Press Releases
- Media Coverage
- Reports
- Roots, Race, & Place
- Introduction
- Origins of Exclusion
- Extrajudicial and Militia Violence
- Exclusionary Zoning
- Racially Restrictive Covenants and Homeowner Association Bylaws
- Racialized Public Housing Policies
- The Beginnings of Urban Renewal and Suburban Revolt
- Exclusionary Real Estate Industry Practices
- Municipal Fragmentation and White Flight
- Discussion: Traces of the Past Today
- Conclusion
- Media Coverage
- Strategic Communications
- Targeted Universalism
- Animated Video & Curriculum
- Podcast interview with john a. powell
- Policy & Practice Primer
- Introduction
- Categorizing Strategies
- Creating a Targeted Universalism Framework
- Targeting within a Targeted Universalism Framework
- Transactional versus Transformative Change
- Universal Goals and Limited Resources
- Building the Table for a Targeted Universal Framework
- Conclusion: Equity 2.0
- Press Release
- Case Study: King County
- Research to Impact Series
- Talk by Joseph Fischel
- Talk by Erin Kerrison
- Talk by Jovan Lewis
- Talk by Paul Frymer
- Talk by Elizabeth Alexander
- Talk by Richard Reeves
- Talk by Victor Rios
- Talk by Mary Pattillo & Jordan Conwell
- Talk by Karen Nakamura
- Talk by Cathy Cohen
- Talk by Tina Sacks and Dawn Dow
- Panel on Family Separations
- Talk by Anne Case
- Talk by Ian Haney Lopez
- Talk by Ibram X. Kendi
- Talk by Judith Carney
- Talk by Lisa Garcia Bedolla
- Talk by Monica White
- Talk by Rucker Johnson
- Talk by Ruha Benjamin
- Talk by Rodney Leon
- #AskOBI
- 2019 Othering & Belonging Conference Report
- Introduction from Conference Chair
- Conference Quick Facts
- Frameworks for Change
- Resources: Links & Media
- Goals & Impact: How Did We Measure Up?
- Conference Agenda: Sessions & Content
- Integrative Features: New Ancillary Programming
- Learnings & Looking Ahead
- Testimonials: In Their Own Words
- Conference Supporters
- Organizing Team
- A Pivotal Moment for the US Refugee Resettlement Program
- AT&T's Digital Divide in California
- Animated Explainer Video Series
- Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity (AFRE)
- Belonging and Community Health in Richmond
- COVID-19: Mapping Vulnerable Populations
- California Community Partnerships
- Corporate Consolidation (Research Brief)
- Creating Bathroom Access & a Gender Inclusive Society
- Doubly Bound: The Cost of Credit Ratings
- Ending Legal Bias
- Equitable Development as a Tool to Advance Racial Equity
- About the Government Alliance on Race & Equity
- Achieving Racial Equity
- A Framework for Advancing Equitable Development
- Evidence of Progress toward Racial Equity through 8 Equitable Development
- What does our past tell us 10 about the importance of growth and racial equity?
- What are current trends and how do they inform our strategies?
- What is success, and how do you achieve it?
- Faculty Clusters
- Video: Faculty Clusters Present Research Briefs
- Research Briefs
- Religious Diversity in America (Religion Cluster)
- State of Change (Disability Cluster)
- Realizing a More Inclusive Electorate (Democracy Cluster)
- The Sick Side of Town (Health Cluster)
- Responding to Rising Inequality (Economics Cluster)
- Creating Bathroom Access (LGBTQ Cluster)
- Responding to Educational Inequality (Education Cluster)
- Fellowship Programs
- Food Justice & Community Health in Richmond
- Funding Public Pensions
- Home with a Purpose: A History of the Safe Return Project
- Ivory Tower Tax Haven
- Abstract
- Introduction
- New Financial Logics and Repurposed Tax Policies in a Financialized Economy
- Data and Measures
- The Growth of Endowment Wealth
- State Supported Uses of Debt and Donations for Endowment Growth
- Islands of Privilege in Undergraduate Enrollments and Instructional Spending
- Conclusion
- References
- Legalizing Othering
- Moving Targets: An Analysis of Global Forced Migration
- Glossary of Terms
- Introduction
- Part 1: A History of Refugee Protections: Race, Colonialism, and the Unevenness of Forced Migration
- Part 2: Dynamics and Colonial History of Contemporary Forced Migration
- Part 3: Migration and Displacement by Region
- Policy Intervention: Toward a TwentyFirst Century Refugee Rights Framework
- On Bridging
- Opening the Door for Rent Control
- Opening the Door for Rent Control
- Opportunity, Race, and Low Income Housing Tax Credit Projects
- Public Health & Wealth in Post-Bankruptcy Detroit
- Puerto Rico's Public School Closures
- Race and Economic Jeopardy For All: A Framing Paper for Defeating Dog Whistle Politics
- Race—The Power of an Illusion
- Realizing a More Inclusive Electorate
- Religious Diversity in America
- Responding to Educational Inequality
- Responding to Rising Inequality: Policy Brief
- Stabilizing Shelter
- State of Change
- Structuring Development for Greater Community Benefit
- The Future of SNAP? Improving Nutrition Policy to Ensure Health and Food Equity
- The Roots of Structural Racism
- The Sick Side of Town
- The US Farm Bill
- Toward Belonging
- Toward the Abolition of Biological Race in Medicine
- Trans Pacific Partnership: Corporations Before People and Democracy
- Trumpism and its Discontents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- The Trump Presidency, Post–Color Blindness, and the Reconstruction of Public Race Speech
- Resentment and Revenge: Internal Colonialism, the Decline of Fordism, and the Trump Vote
- Trumpism and the Crisis of the American Liberal Order
- What’s So New about the #MeToo Movement?
- Demography is not Destiny
- On Trumpism and Illegality
- Latinx Politics and the Census in the Trump Era
- Immigration Policy, Presidential Action, and the Politics of Debasement Status message
- Turning Off the Tap: Trump, the GOP, and Regulatory Science Status message
- Marching for Our Lives: Gun-Control Politics in the Age of Trump
- Genius or Suicide
- Underwater America
- Unfair Shares
- Water Equity and Security in Detroit's Water and Sewer District
- What Didn't Happen?
- Equity Metrics
- Widening the Lens on Voter Suppression
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