The Next California

California is America on fast forward. The state’s demographic changes have outpaced and foreshadowed the nation. The shifts in our racial composition between 1980 and 2000 are what the US will experience between 2000 and 2040. Moreover, the state’s...

Mind Sciences and Creating New Narratives

By Rachel D. Godsil He who defines reality holds power. Cognitive science confirms what every culture in the world has intuitively understood—reality is defined through narrative. Our brains process and remember narratives more powerfully than facts...

Blueprint for Belonging Popular Education Curriculum Resources

Advancing a new strategic narrative will require popular education that provides spaces and resources for people concerned with social justice to gain new analysis and strategies for engaging with the world. Towards this end, the Blueprint for...

California Survey on Othering and Belonging

Click here to read our Press Release on the results of this survey In December 2017, the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley and Latino Decisions fielded a statewide public opinion poll to better understand the interaction...

Video: Transforming California from Red to Blue

By Gerald Lenoir and Serginho Roosblad California is currently leading the resistance against the current Trump administration. And that’s not new. The state has a reputation for being the most progressive state in the union. Important social and...

john powell addresses the National Interagency Community Reinvestment Conference

On March 20, 2018 Haas Institute Director john a. powell gave a keynote address at the National Interagency Community Reinvestment Conference in Miami. The address discussed Federal Reserve data confirming that wealth and income inequality in the U.S...
Apr
13

Cathy Cohen on 'Reimagining Political Knowledge: Race and the Carceral State'

Professor Cathy Cohen of the University of Chicago is set to speak on April 13, 2018 on 'Reimagining Political Knowledge: Race and the Carceral State.' This talk will be part of the Haas Institute's Research to Impact speaker series. Cathy...
Mar
7

Climate Change as Climate Debt: Forging a Just Future

Climate change may be the most far reaching manifestation of white privilege and class privilege yet to face humankind. Caused overwhelmingly by high-consuming people, climate change is wreaking death and destruction foremost on impoverished people who also are disproportionately people...

Race & Inequality in America: The Kerner Commission at 50 conference

This page and all related pages in the navigation menu serve as an archive of the "Race & Inequality in America: The Kerner Commission at 50 conference."
Feb
28

Film Screening: Whose Streets?

We are hosting a special film screening of Whose Streets? followed by a discussion with co-director Sabaah Folayan Wednesday evening during our " Race & Inequality in America, the Kerner Commission at 50 conference." The film screening is free and...