Publications

The Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society (HIFIS) prepared an analysis of the potential socio-economic impact of the planned Richmond Bay Campus on the surrounding neighborhoods and marginalized communities. This analysis was developed with...

Currently in the United States, racial inequalities and disparities stem from structural racialization. While structural racialization does not require racist actors, its outcomes generate and perpetuate preexisting racial and ethnic inequalities.

October 30, 2013 This nation’s commitment to fair housing and integrated living patterns is in peril in a critical case reviewed by the United States Supreme Court this term. The Civil Rights Act of 1968, known as the Fair Housing Act, was enacted...

Summer 2013 Research Fellow Erik Lampmann recently finished a report for the Haas Institute entitled "Seeking Belongingness: Examining Equity, Capability, and Opportunity through Existing Index Schemes." In his report, Lampmann critically analyzes...

Director and Professor john a. powell published an article for the September/October 2013 issue of Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC), entitled "Deepening Our Understanding of Structural Marginalization." Download the article: Sept-Oct...

This report examines the various state-by-state waivers under No Child Left Behind and the potential for reducing the achievement gap. Download NCLB Report

The disproportionate impact and devastating flooding and loss of life that followed Hurricane Katrina vividly illustrated this pattern. Evacuation plans premised on car ownership failed to account for families who could not rely on that mode of...

john powell had left his long-time position as Executive Director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race & Ethnicity at The Ohio State University to head the new Haas Institute for an Equitable Society (formerly the Haas Diversity Research Center) at the University of California, Berkeley. P&R editor Chester Hartman was in the Bay Area in April and took the opportunity to interview john about his new work—what follows is a summary of his responses.