New Maps Provide Granular Look at Racial Segregation in SF Bay Area

October 29, 2018 BERKELEY, CA: The Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley on Monday released the first in a series of maps and web reports that depict the levels of racial segregation across the San Francisco Bay Area, down to...

Haas Institute Probes Corporate Role in the Global Food Crisis

BERKELEY, CA: The Haas Institute at UC Berkeley Wednesday launched a new monitoring project that investigates and documents the power and influence of 10 mega corporations—which own hundreds of subsidiaries in the agriculture, food production, and...

Rent Control Key to Stabilize California Housing Market: Report

BERKELEY, CA: Rent control policies are key to stabilizing California’s housing affordability crisis, which has driven millions of people into poverty and displaced hundreds of thousands of others, a new analysis released Wednesday by the Haas...

New Resource Pack Compiles Key Works in US Islamophobia Studies

The Haas Institute at UC Berkeley on Wednesday released a resource pack that compiles hundreds of scholarly works on Islamophobia in the US.

Widening the Lens on Voter Suppression

The report insists that state governments must make more robust efforts to educate citizens about the content of new restrictive voting laws, and that civic organizations should simultaneously prepare local leaders to serve as community advocates.

Hip-Hop, Social Justice, and Belonging

Dozens of students, organizers, artists, and hip-hop aficionados gathered for a dialogue with former Black Panther Ericka Huggins and DJ Davey D to celebrate hip-hop, social justice, and the power of belonging at a Haas Institute-organized event at...

Supreme Court's Muslim ban ruling inscribes bigotry into law

Berkeley, CA: The Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision on June 26 upholding Donald Trump's Muslim ban in the Trump v. Hawaii case has effectively inscribed bigotry into American law, despite both a constitutional and a statutory prohibition against...

Colorado baker ruling reaffirms LGBTQ rights

On June 4, 2018, the US Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission in favor of the baker whose shop had refused to prepare a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, in a long-awaited decision concerning religious...

Local Partnerships Change Narrative, Policy, and Community Infrastructure in Richmond, California

In Richmond, California, the Haas Institute has partnered with community leaders and organizations to create strategies to further belonging in the face of persistent racial inequities and displacement. Three related projects unfolded through...

Taking Back Democracy: Relational Organizing and Political Engagement

On April 27 UC Berkeley Professor Lisa Garcia Bedolla provided the final talk in the Research to Impact series, which focused on the benefits of community-based relational organizing and political engagement as new solutions to the persistent problem...

New database exposes anti-Muslim legislation across the US

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE As secretary of state-pick Mike Pompeo, known for his anti-Muslim views, nears confirmation, and the Supreme Court appears poised to uphold the Muslim ban, the Haas Institute releases a database that identifies state lawmakers...

Survey: Majority of Californians oppose border wall, support racial inclusion

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 18, 2018 BERKELEY: Two-thirds of Californians oppose President Donald Trump’s proposed wall along the US-Mexico border and 64 percent believe the state should limit hospital, school, and law enforcement cooperation with...

Reimagining Political Knowledge: Race and the Carceral State

University of Chicago professor Cathy Cohen’s talk on April 13 as part of the Research to Impact series began with two essential questions: what is political knowledge?; and how does race/ethnicity shape the different types of political knowledge...

Prominent lineup of experts, officials to headline UC Berkeley race conference

BERKELEY, CA: More than 30 high-profile figures, including President Obama’s housing secretary, a former US senator, and the mayor of New Orleans, are set to participate in a major, three-day conference from Feb. 27 to March 1 at UC Berkeley...

Haas Institute housing report presents key policies for Richmond, CA

BERKELEY, CA: In the midst of the ongoing conversation on the Bay Area housing crisis, the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley and a coalition of partners from Richmond, California, released a report Friday that highlights...

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Transformative Research Toolkit

Introduction We have seen and participated in transformative research strategies that defeated proposed jail expansions, won millions of dollars for community-prioritized programs, and built new community-led organizations that changed a political...
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Depolarization Day

Want a chance to hear from experts studying the root of what’s driving us apart and how we come back together? Eager to build the skills to listen empathetically, elicit narratives of connection, and interview professionally? Looking for a chance...

Book Talk: Before Gentrification, with Tanya Golash-Boza

Dr. Tanya Golash-Boza's book Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap explores how redlining, incarceration, anti-blackness, and gentrification have resulted in DC becoming an extremely unequal city. She presented her book...