• Blog
  • March 4, 2015

Bowman v. Monsanto: The monopoly over the global food system

On February 21, 2013, the Supreme Court heard legal arguments on Bowman v. Monsanto in what is sure to become a landmark patent and intellectual property case in the United States. The case involves the giant seed agrichemical company Monsanto vs. a...
  • Blog
  • March 4, 2015

The Importance of Inclusive Extracurricular Activities

On January 25, 2013, the United States Department of Education Office for Civil Rights issued new guidance for primary, secondary, and university educators on providing inclusionary athletic opportunities for disabled students. This new guidance was...
  • Blog

Perspectives on the Critical Race Theory Conference: Using Critical Race Theory in Legal Practice

Critical race theory has been around since the 1980s, yet few law schools provide courses on this crucial body of scholarship. While “Critical Race Theory” is a course taught at Berkeley Law, it is not offered every year. For example, I have never...
  • Blog

Reflections on the Critical Race Theory Conference

Critiquing the legal system for not taking into consideration the voices of marginalized communities has been long overdue, and still most law school campuses lack a Critical Race Theory (“CRT”) course. This conference, therefore, offered an...
  • Blog

'I Can't Breathe': Racial Injustice, Segregation, and Health Disparities

January 27, 2015 By Amani Allen Eric Garner’s death and the failure to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo have had a profound effect on communities throughout the United States. But it’s not just Eric Garner. This, and similar cases including...
  • Blog
  • January 12, 2015

Food is a human right not a commodity, experts say

East Bay chapter of the United Nations Association discusses challenges to eliminating hunger and opportunities to eliminate corporate control of agriculture
  • Blog

Will Supreme Court annihilate one of the best tools for battling racial segregation in housing?

The U.S. Supreme Court could be on the verge of issuing a major setback to racial integration efforts. In two weeks, it will hear oral arguments regarding whether the federal government and states should be permitted to pursue policies that...
  • Blog
  • January 13, 2015

Appetite for money undermines the poor’s access to legal profession

The core value of the legal profession is justice, but, the realities of the legal profession are often driven by money. The profession’s heavy focus on ensuring that money and money-making resources are transferred from one group to the next serves...
  • Blog

From Street Harassment to Stop & Frisk: The Need for More Inclusive Public Space

A recent video produced by “Hollaback!”, an organization focused on ending street harassment, has sparked a national conversation about the issue. Filmed from a hidden camera, the short video, which now has over 36 million views, shows a young woman...
  • Blog

Pointergate: Where to point the blame in media bias

Nov. 24, 2014 What happens when a mayor of a major U.S. city points at a resident while posing for a photo? If that mayor poses with a Black male, police officers might accuse that mayor of throwing up gang signs. That's what happened when...
  • Blog

An even bolder vision for the Berkeley Global Campus

Oct. 30, 2014 For the last year, I have been given the opportunity to work with community partners and residents in Richmond, Calif. to research potential impacts and opportunities on this city due to a planned development project to be built here by...
  • Blog
  • October 20, 2014

The Black Record: Why we don't know how often police kill

In Killing Them Softly, comedian Dave Chappelle explained how fearful he was to call the police when someone broke into his house. Now why would someone in a free country like America be afraid to call the police to their own home if they were the...
  • Blog

Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage ushers in a new era of equality

On Oct. 6, when the Supreme Court declined to review five appellate courts’ decisions to strike down bans on same-sex marriage, a new era for same-sex marriage emerged. Other district courts across the United States have taken this as a precedent to...
  • Blog

Cities must take action to stem local crises

Over the past year, there have been widespread media reports of a national housing recovery. Hard hit cities like Detroit, devastated by the foreclosure crisis, are frequently mentioned as leaders in rising home prices. But don’t tell that to the...
  • Blog
  • September 10, 2014

Six policies to reduce economic inequality

Following the Inequality Policy Brief, here are six ways to minimize the rising economic inequality prevalent in the United States. Haas Institute Director john a. powell discusses why these policies will work in slowing the growth in inequality.

Explore Othering and Belonging

  • Newsletters

E-Newsletter Archive

An Archive of past issues of our bi-weekly newsletter.
Sep
24
  • September 24, 2025, 3:30 - 5 p.m.

Geography Colloquium with Anand Pandian

Anand Pandian is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University, with a joint appointment in Earth & Planetary Sciences. His books include A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times, and Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life...
  • Publication
  • September 24, 2025

Comparing Major Measures of Racial Residential Segregation in the United States Over Time

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...