Ian Haney Lopez

Ian Haney López holds an endowed chair as the John H. Boalt Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches in the areas of race and constitutional law. One of the nation’s leading thinkers on racism’s evolution since the civil rights era, he is also a Senior Fellow at Demos. Haney López has been a visiting law professor at Yale, New York University, and Harvard, where he served as the Ralph E. Shikes Visiting Fellow in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. He holds a master’s in history from Washington University, a master’s in public policy from Princeton, and a law degree from Harvard, and is a past recipient of the Alphonse Fletcher Fellowship, awarded to scholars whose work furthers the integration goals of Brown v. Board of Education. The author or editor of five books, his most recent, Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class, lays bare how politicians exploit racial pandering to build resentment toward government, fooling voters into supporting policies that favor the very wealthiest while hurting everyone else.

Media Mentions

May 6, 2021: Critical Race Theory Illuminates Democrats’ Master Plan To End Honest Elections In America (The Federalist)

April 28, 2021: Should Biden Emphasize Race or Class or Both or None of the Above? (New York Times)

February 24, 2021: Haney López On Critical Race Theory And 'Dog Whistle Politics' Around One N.H. Bill (NHPR)

February 16, 2021: Privatization Would Doom Biden's Infrastructure Plan (In These Times)

January 14, 2021: Here's why experts and lawmakers say you can't compare Black Lives Matter protesters to the US Capitol mob (CNN)

Aug. 2, 2016: This is How Trump Convinces His Supporters They're Not Racist (The Nation)

July 26, 2016: The Most Important Part of Day One that No One is Focusing On (Moyers & Company)

May 17, 2016: A Berkeley professor tries to explain Trump to labor in Hartford (The CT Mirror)

May 11, 2016: Is Trump's Blatant Racism an Opportunity to Build Class Solidarity? (Between the Lines)

Mar. 12, 2016: We Must Talk About Race to Fix Economic Inequality (Demos)

Mar. 4, 2016: Ian Haney López Talks Race, Politics, and Economic Jeopardy in U.S. (The Mac Weekly)