Join us on June 30 for a virtual conversation among three Berkeley experts on the nature and causes of racial inequality, how to think about the problem of racial inequality, and what should be done about it. They will be discussing a new book released the same day, entitled, Structural Racism: The Dynamics of Opportunity and Race in America, by OBI Assistant Director Stephen Menendian, and take audience questions.
Speakers
john a. powell is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of civil rights, civil liberties, structural racism, housing, poverty, and democracy. He is the Director of the Othering & Belonging Institute and a Professor of Law, African American Studies, and Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley.
Michael Omi (he/him/his) is Professor Emeritus of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the co-author, with Howard Winant, of Racial Formation in the United States (Third Edition, 2015), a groundbreaking work that transformed how we understand the social and historical forces that give race its changing meaning over time and place.
Stephen Menendian is the Assistant Director and Director of Research at the Othering & Belonging Institute, where he supervises or leads many important initiatives, including projects advising state, local, and federal housing authorities. Stephen is the author of Structural Racism: The Dynamics of Opportunity and Race in America and Belonging Without Othering: How We Save Ourselves and the World (with john a. powell).
