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Just as a spate of books on economic inequality erupted in the first half of this decade, culminating in Thomas Piketty’s dense, but readable blockbuster tome, Capital in the Twenty-First Century , there has been a furious burst of scholarship...

Boasting a reputation as a progressive stronghold and a sanctuary state, Californians pride themselves on inclusive cultural attitudes and regard their state as a hub of the “resistance” to the Trump administration’s exclusionary policies. Yet...

“OTHERING AND BELONGING” and “Targeted Universalism” are two of our most potent frameworks, and in the last year, we have made a decisive move towards more deeply articulating and implementing them as conceptual frameworks and applied policy...

This past year, the Haas Institute’s faculty research clusters greatly increased their research and programming efforts to promote social equity and respond to emerging critical issues related to social inclusion. One of the year’s major...

The Haas Institute welcomed its sixth cohort in 2018 to take part in the annual Summer Fellowship, a 14-week program where fellows work directly with Institute staff on a range of projects to gain experience in and exposure to work around belonging...

A Q&A with Eric Stanley

The Haas Institute's new Civic Engagement Narrative Change project aims to build a more inclusive “we” in civic and political life, for a democracy in which everyone can participate, be counted, and belong. The project operates through collaborations...

In this episode of Who Belongs? we discuss the topic of the US Census with Professor Michael Omi, who is an affiliated faculty member of our Institute, author of Racial Formation in the United States, and one of only a handful of experts on the US Census.

April 2, 2019 At this April 2 event at UC Berkeley, Dawn Dow and Tina Sacks discuss their new books on African American women. Dow’s book, Mothering While Black: Boundaries and Burdens of Middle-Class Parenthood (UC Press 2019), examines the complex...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 29, 2019 BERKELEY, CA: A roster of high-profile activists, artists, government officials, and scholars, including Rev. William J. Barber, II , NFL star Michael Bennett , Pulitzer Prize winner Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah , star...