Publications

This white paper documents how local and regional organizations are confronting these challenges and shaping pathways toward just transitions that are not only low-carbon but also equitable, locally grounded, and reparative. Conducted by the Global Justice Program (GJP) at the Othering & Belonging Institute, UC Berkeley...

This graphic illustration serves as a meaning-making tool, outlining the foundational components of building for belonging and the practices that enable it within projects and places. Illustration by Wenjia Tang. Click here to download the full-size...

Note: This is our 2025 update to the our report published in 2021. Click here to view the original. -- The Othering and Belonging Institute is pleased to unveil a major update and extensive addition to our “Roots of Structural Racism” project...

Introduction The authors have many people to thank, beginning with Arthur Gailes, Phuong Tseng, Chih-Wei Hsu, Joseph Ahrenholtz, Ipso Cantong, Peter Matingly, Karina French, Abby Steckel, Zoya Gheisar, Varun Fuloria and Shahan Shahid Nawaz. Racial...

Introduction Segregation is a complicated, nuanced concept, and one that has eluded simple definition and universal measure despite decades of intellectual effort. Some scholars believe that segregation is really a composite of five concepts, while...

Join us in learning from UC Berkeley’s graduate students in two new policy memos on housing policy for belonging, adapted from their much longer student projects! These memos offer lessons for advocates, funders, legislators, and other change-makers...

This memo is a part of the Community Power & Policy Partnership’s Housing Policy for Belonging, a project aimed at uplifting the great student work happening across UC Berkeley’s campus. We are so grateful to these authors for wrestling their 40 page...

This memo is a part of the Community Power & Policy Partnership’s Housing Policy for Belonging, a project aimed at uplifting the great student work happening across UC Berkeley’s campus. We are so grateful to these authors for wrestling their 40 page...

A Six-Strategy Framework Examining How Political and Cultural Leaders Weaponize Gender in Ways that Advance Authoritarianism.

Around the world, people are seeking effective ways to build just, equitable, and inclusive institutions that can serve everyone without fueling fragmentation, division, and fear. At the Othering & Belonging Institute (OBI), we’ve answered this call...

This report is a Joint Stakeholder submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council on behalf of the Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley and the Council on American-Islamic Relations for the 4th Universal Periodic Review cycle of the...

How can the contaminated lands that dot urban neighborhoods and rural lands across the country and the world, often for years or decades, be cleaned up and put to reuse in ways that ensure environmental health, social equity, and thriving local...

What data should be collected to measure how equitable a transportation project is, and measure progress toward a more equitable transportation system?

This FAQ is was created to accompany our more robust legal guidance document, Advancing Racial Equity: Legal Guidance for Advocates. Is consideration of race in public policymaking or public programs illegal or unconstitutional? As a follow up then...

In response to constant, increasing threats of housing insecurity and displacement, marginalized communities in California have long fought for the ability to stay rooted in, and collectively shape the future of, the places they call home. Their...