Within the broader context of rising Islamophobia, this presentation sheds light on the legalized othering of Muslim communities across the United States via anti-Muslim legislation and bills spanning the years 2000-2016. With a focus on the anti-Sharia movement in the...
Elsadig Elsheikh , the director of the Global Justice Program at the Haas Institute, will be presenting his recent report, " Moving Targets: An Analysis of Global Forced Migration " at a colloquium sponsored by the Center for African Studies...
Join us to listen to sociologist G. Cristina Mora talk about how Southwest Mexicans, Miami Cubans, and New York Puerto Ricans came to see themselves as not just distinct nationalities, but also as Hispanics - a national pan-ethnic group. Spoiler...
The Haas Institute is co-sponsoring a talk by Patrisia Macías-Rojas, a sociologist who teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago, on her book, From Deportation to Prison: The Politics of Immigration Enforcement in Post-Civil Rights America. The book unpacks...
Haas Director john a. powell will provide a keynote address at El Centro de la Raza's 45th anniversary gala to be held September 30 in Seattle, Washington. powell helped found El Centro in Seattle. The theme of the gala is...
The symposium takes its name from the title of Jay Dolmage’s forthcoming book, Academic Ableism. “For too long,” Dolmage argues, “disability has been constructed as the antithesis of higher education, often positioned as a distraction, a drain, a problem to...
The Terner Center and the Department of City and Regional Planning are hosting a lecture by Richard Rothstein, author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America, which has just been nominated for a...
An exhibition by the Chair of the Haas Institute's Religious Diversity cluster Karen Barkey on "Shared Sacred Sites" in the Balkans and the Mediterranean will open at the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art in Greece this weekend, and will remain...
What can we do to ensure everyone shares in the prosperity that they contribute to? Come hear planner Karen Trapenberg Frick talk about how digital era activists are using new tools to develop unusual coalitions to engage in infrastructure and...
Haas Institute Director john a. powell is set to participate in a faculty panel moderated by UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ this Friday, September 8. Other panelists will include: Erwin Chemerinsky Berkeley Law Dean, Constitutional Law Scholar, and Founding Dean...
Join us for the Thinking Ahead Speaker Series with economist William Darity Jr. for a discussion on how we can dramatically reduce unemployment and break down barriers to better paying jobs for African-Americans and others who have been historically held...
Richard Rothstein will be at the DIESEL Bookstore in Oakland to discuss and sign, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, on Tuesday, July 18th at 7:00 p.m. In this groundbreaking history of the modern...
Join us for the Thinking Ahead speaker series with Richmond City Council member Melvin Willis and journalist Steve Early on a discussion of community empowerment and transformative policies that help get big money out of politics. What can we do...
What can we do to ensure everyone shares in the prosperity that they contribute to? Come here political scientist Daniel Martinez HoSang discuss how transformative racial movements have redefined "freedom". Download the flyer.
Join us for the Thinking Ahead speaker series with a discussion of Sabeel Rahman's book," Democracy Against Domination ", moderated by john a powell, with community organizer Christina Livingston and political scientist Paul Pierson. Unchecked corporate power is a danger...
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