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Faculty profile: Law professor Jonathan Simon on 'Othering' through Mass Incarceration

Jonathan Simon is a professor at the Berkeley Law School and a member of the Haas Institute's Diversity and Democracy research cluster. His scholarship focuses on the role of crime and criminal justice in governing modern societies. He recently...
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  • November 20, 2014

Faculty Profile: Seth Holmes Discusses Migrant Workers, the US agricultural system, and Structural Inequality Exacerbated "through metaphors of ethnic difference"

Seth M. Holmes is a professor in the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and Graduate Program in Medical Anthropology and a member of the Haas Institute Diversity and Health Disparities Cluster . Holmes is the author of Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies...
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  • March 21, 2016

Faculty Profile: Juana María Rodríguez on sexuality in public discourse

Juana María Rodríguez is a member of the Haas Institute's LGBTQ Citizenship cluster and a professor of Gender and Women's Studies at University of California, Berkeley. Here, she discusses the "politics of respectability" in the gay marriage movement...
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Michael Omi and Howard Winant Radically Revise "Racial Formation in the United States" book

UC Berkeley Ethnic S tudies professor Michael Omi is perhaps best known for his treatise on race in America, first published in 1986 with co-author Howard Winant, a professor of sociolo gy at UC Santa Barbara. A third edition of Racial Formation in...
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Haas Diversity Research Center: Janelle Scott Investigates Educational Disparities

September 2010 Janelle Scott was teaching at New York University two years ago when she saw an announcement for her dream job, a post at UC Berkeley devoted to educational disparities. “It was one of the rare times when you see a job listing that...

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Consistent with our mission and values, as a multi-disciplinary research center that seeks to advance a world of belonging without othering, the Othering & Belonging Institute (OBI) conducts research, develops narrative strategy, and supports...