African Food Sovereignty Working Group at Cal The Center for African Studies and the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley will launch the African Food Sovereignty Working Group at Cal on February 3. The African Food...
By Haas Institute News | January 22, 2015 One month after Berkeley police used tear gas and batons during a December protest, the City Council held a town hall meeting on police-community relations on Jan. 17. According to the only news website...
The Program of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Presents Michael Omi & Howard Winant Racial Formation in the United States a book talk Michael Omi and Howard Winant discuss the new edition of Racial Formation in the United States (2015)...
by Rasheed Shabazz | January 21, 2014 Richmond community leaders called for housing to be on agenda for Berkeley Global Campus The working group tasked with making recommendations for the proposed Berkeley Global Campus in Richmond will add housing...
by Rasheed Shabazz | January 20, 2015 “Power tends to corrupt,” British historian Lord Acton said. “Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” This corruption is not only limited to economics, politics, or even notions of morality, but also the functioning...
By Rasheed Shabazz | January 12, 2015 UC Berkeley Political Science professor M. Steven Fish recently appeared on the Decode DC radio show to discuss the perceived association between violence and Islam. In the wake of the attacks on the satirical...
East Bay chapter of the United Nations Association discusses challenges to eliminating hunger and opportunities to eliminate corporate control of agriculture
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...
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...
Since August 2014, when Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson, MO, and his body left lying in the street for over four hours, the Haas Institute has been part of the national conversation on Black Lives Matter and civil rights in the USA. In many...
January 7, 2015 Hilary Hoynes, Distinguished Chair of the Haas Institute’s Economic Disparities cluster and Professor of Public Policy and Economics at UC Berkeley, was recently announced as the 2014 recipient of the prestigious Carolyn Shaw Bell...
The Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society and the Economic Policy Institute jointly filed an amicus brief (friend of the court) of 62 housing scholars in the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. the Inclusive Communities...
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...
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...
A research-backed guide for building bridges across difference in any area of our lives, from esteemed civil rights scholar john a. powell. We don't want to live in a society in turmoil. In the US, 93 percent of people want to reduce divisiveness...
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...
The root of all inequality is the process of othering – and its solution is the practice of belonging We all yearn for connection and community, but we live in a time when calls for further division along the well-wrought lines of religion, race...
