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November 10, 2016: Post-Trump Statement November 8, 2016: Election Day October 26, 2016: Haas Institute News October 19, 2016: Haas Institute News October 5, 2016: Haas Institute News September 26, 2016: Inclusiveness Index Launch September 22, 2016...

Blueprint for Belonging: Developing a Strategic Narrative to Combat Structural Racism

This workshop, presented as part of the Inclusive Democracy track at the Facing Race 2016 conference, focused on how base-building groups, policy advocates, labor organizations and organizations can advance a strategic analysis of structural...

Blog: Sanitizing White Nationalism - The Invention of the Term “Alt-Right”

November 19, 2016 [Lead photo credit: Mathias Wasick, Creative Commons License via Flickr] Where did the term “Alt-right” come from and how did it get into popular use? It turns out “Alt-right” was a recent invention, poking its head into social...

Implicit Bias and Philanthropic Effectiveness

November 18, 2016 On November 18, 2016, professor and Director john a. powell gave a keynote address to the GRANTMAKERS of Oregon and Southwest Washington and their annual meeting. The focus was on implicit bias and philanthropy. Specifically, how...

“Next Steps: Towards Basic Income and Basic Assets”

A Day Long Structured Dialogue to Explore the Tech Economy & Build On its Strengths to Establish Enduring Prosperity This fall we are convening community & labor organizers along with economic & policy experts to consider what the next steps towards...

International Tolerance Day

November 16 th marks the International Day of Tolerance. On September 1, 1995, the Declaration of Principles and Follow-up Plan of Action for the United Nations Year of Tolerance , urgently encouraged member states, “not to fail, upon the...

Understanding Community Health Equity

On November 17, 2016, Director john a. powell gave a lunchtime presentation on community health equity in the San Francisco Bay Area. Speaking to an audience of 200+ health practitioners, Dr. powell emphasized the importance of place and racial...

Blog: The International Day of Tolerance

November 16 is International Day of Tolerance. On September 1, 1995 the Declaration of Principles and Follow-up Plan of Action for the United Nations Year of Tolerance urgently encouraged member states, “not to fail upon the intellectual and moral...

Healing Otherness

On November 12, 2016, professor john a. powell gave a presentation on the neuroscience behind the process of othering. This presentation was one of many throughout a two-day conference on the economics of race. Hosted by the Institute for New...

This is Who We Are: Post Election 2016 Statement

When the Haas Institute came into being four years ago, our vision stated that we would “work on society’s most pressing and pivotal issues related to structural inclusion and marginalization," that we would do work that was big-picture and game...

Election 2016 Perspectives

Masculinity, Anxiety, and Fear of the Other in the Age of Trump: a new essay by Sara Grossman looking at the role of toxic masculinity, misogyny, homophobia, and anxieties around the Other that have been amplified by Donald Trump in this Presidential...

Season of the Demogouge

Americans head to the polls today in what is likely the most important and consequential election in more than a generation, and certainly the most fraught since 1968, which followed the assassinations of Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr. and...

Season of the demagogue

Americans head to the polls today in what is likely the most important and consequential election in more than a generation, and certainly the most fraught since 1968, which followed the assassinations of Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr. and...

Masculinity, Anxiety, and Fear of the Other in the Age of Trump

On February 9, 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy stood before the Ohio County Women’s Republican Club in Wheeling, West Virginia and presented a list of over 200 State Department employees who were supposedly members of the Communist Party. These...

Black Liberation and the Food Movement, A Community Forum

This forum aims to address how structural racism and violence against Black communities extends into and across the food system, as well as the capacity of food system work to address Black liberation.The afternoon will include a Keynote address by...

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Reimagining Allyship: Reflecting on Where We Are and Where We Can Go From Here

The Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative is delighted to welcome Simran Jeet Singh to the UC Berkeley campus. Dr. Singh is Executive Director of the Religion and Society Program at the Aspen Institute and the author of the national...

Videos from the 2024 Othering & Belonging Conference

See our playlist below which includes all our videos from the 2024 Othering & Belonging Conference, which took place April 25-27 in Oakland, CA! To select a video from the playlist click on the button in the top right corner of the video player...