Video: Opening the Door For Rent Control

Nicole Montojo, a housing researcher at the Haas Institute, and Stephen Barton, former Housing Director for Berkeley, present their new report on the housing crisis, titled " Opening the Door for Rent Control: Toward a Comprehensive Approach to...

Religious Diversity in America

It is the task of this brief to rethink the question of American pluralism, indicating the historical moments when diversity came into question, but also to highlight the strategies of managing diversity.
Sep
27

One Year After Charlottesville: Replacing the Resurgence of Racism With Reconciliation

Sept. 27-28, 2018 University of Virginia School of Law Schedule | Register Racial backlash is, and has always been, a deeply rooted American tradition. In the contemporary moment, public expressions of racism, xenophobia and various forms of othering are resurging...

Blog: Economist Displaces Facts about Gentrification

In a recent editorial, the Economist magazine weighs in on the gentrification debate from the position that when it comes to historically marginalized populations experiencing a transformation of their neighborhoods, the truly underrepresented are actually beneficiaries of gentrification.

Opening the Door for Rent Control

California is at a tipping point; both the government and private market are failing to meet the needs of a vast majority of the state’s 17.5 million renters.

SCG Conference 2018: Our Common Humanity

On September 17, 2018, Director john a. powell participated in the Southern California Grantmakers Conference on Our Common Humanity. The conference focused on strategies the philanthropic sector can employ to generate systemic change for the...
Sep
19

LIVE STREAM: "Opening the Door for Rent Control: Toward a Comprehensive Approach to Protecting California's Renters"

“Protecting California’s Renters: Opening the Door for Rent Control” The Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society of the University of California, Berkeley invites you to a press briefing on Wednesday, September 19 where members of the institute will...

Islamophobia Reading Resource Pack

This Reading Resource Pack was developed by researchers from the Global Justice Program at the Othering & Belonging Institute, as part of its larger project of documenting and countering Islamophobia. AUTHORS Rhonda Itaoui was a Research Fellow with...
Sep
20

Navigating Borders and Violence

Navigating Borders and Violence: Indigenous Maya Families and Central American Children in Migration "It is a crime to be young here": Violence against Minors in Central America, Mexico, and the United States Leisy J. Abrego Department of Chicana/o Studies at...

Othering and Belonging Journal, Issue 3

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