Blog: Is Trump the most racist president we've had?

I have been asked lately, more than a few times, whether our current president is the most racist president in the history of this country. But this is the wrong question.

Fall 2019 Magazine

Get up to date on our latest activities with the Fall 2019 Haas Institute News Magazine. Covering the first half of 2019, the magazine features an interview with Haas Institute scholar Rucker Johnson on school re-segregation, an illustrated review of...

Racial Segregation in the San Francisco Bay Area, Part 4

In this brief we turn to the question of the effects of segregation by illustrating the specific correlations with segregation and a variety of life outcomes in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Recent Writing on the Causes, Consequences, and Politics of Racial Segregation

Three new books tackle the problem of segregation with fresh solutions, deeper insights, and a firmer basis for understanding how this enduring problem polarizes our politics, just in time for the 2020 Presidential campaign. There has been a...

Study finds strong correlations between segregation and life outcomes in SF Bay Area

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OCTOBER 30, 2019 BERKELEY, CA: Residents of highly-segregated Black and Latinx neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay Area experience vastly poorer life outcomes than residents of white neighborhoods in income, housing equity...

Video: john a. powell keynote to Oregon's Community Action Agency

On October 25, 2019, Director john a. powell gave a keynote address in Beaverton, Oregon to members of the region’s Community Action Agency and members of the communities they serve. Director powell presented on the frameworks of belonging and...

Video: Judith Carney - In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Food Legacy in the Atlantic World

This event was a part of the Haas Institute's Research to Impact Series, Co-Organized with The Geography Dept. 23rd Sauer Memorial Lecture, the Berkeley Food Institute and the African American Studies Department. About the Talk: A striking feature of...

Notes on a Cultural Strategy for Belonging

The Institute’s Notes on A Cultural Strategy report outlines a cultural strategy for belonging that centers the leadership, voices, storytelling, practices, and knowledge of people and communities who are marginalized in our society.

john a. powell on Racial Inequity and Economic Justice in Urban Planning

On October 22, 2019, Professor powell gave the 2019 Charles Causier Memorial Lecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Architecture and Urban Planning. Professor powell's keynote focused on racial equity and economic justice in urban...

Putting Integration on the Agenda

On October 18, 2019, Stephen Menendian and Richard Rothstein published a review of a landmark new book on racial residential segregation in the United States, examining the policy options to advance the goal of integration. Published in the American...

Blog: Disparate Impact Liability is the Best Remedy for Structural Racism

In 1968, Congress enacted the Fair Housing Act, the nation’s first open housing law. This critical piece of legislation not only prohibited racial discrimination in housing, but sought to reverse decades of federal, state, and local policies that...

Video: Bill Mckibben & john a. powell on "Climate Crisis, Designer Babies, and Our Common Future"

On October 18 author and environmental activist Bill McKibben and Haas Institute Director john a. powell came together at UC Berkeley for a conversation on the “Climate Crisis, Designer Babies, and Our Common Future.” The event was moderated by...

Video: Ruha Benjamin on "The New Jim Code? Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination"

From everyday apps to complex algorithms, technology has the potential to hide, speed, and even deepen discrimination, while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to racist practices of a previous era. In this October 17 talk at UC...

Video: Lawrence Lanahan in conversation with john a. powell on segregation and fair housing

Baltimore journalist Lawrence Lanahan spoke at UC Berkeley on Monday, October 14 about his new book, The Lines Between Us: Two Families and a Quest to Cross Baltimore's Racial Divide.

Video: "Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America" with Ian Haney Lopez

On Friday, October 11, Berkeley Law Professor Ian Haney Lopez presented on his new book, Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America, which offers a powerful, original, and hopeful strategy for defeating the right’s...

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What I Saw in Gaza

Dr. Feroze Sidhwa volunteered with the World Health Organization at the European Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, March 25 – April 2, 2024, and again from March 3 – April 2, 2025, with MedGlobal, an American Non-governmental Organization (NGO). In...

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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...