Video: Tina Sacks and Dawn Marie Dow on "Cultural Capital, Systemic Exclusion and Bias in the Lives of Black Middle-Class Women"

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...

Video: Stephen Menendian keynote at the Fair Housing Conference

Haas Institute Assistant Director Stephen Menendian gave a keynote talk on April 1 at a fair housing conference in San Rafael on the topic of residential racial segregation. Stephen prefaced his remarks with an explanation that the fundamental...

Video: EJ Toppin on resistance to reparations as a crisis of national identity

Haas Institute researcher EJ Toppin participated in a panel discussion on the issue of reparations on April 1, 2019 at a conference on fair housing in San Rafael. EJ addressed the resistance among white people to reparations, saying that the issue...

Video: Celebrating the Launch of a New Companion Website to Race—The Power of an Illusion

First broadcast on public television more than 15 years ago, Race—The Power of an Illusion has become one of the most widely viewed documentaries in American history, and it remains timely and relevant today. The series asks a question so basic it is...

Video: john powell & Nadine Strossen engage on campus hate speech

On March 15, 2019, Haas Institute Director john powell and New York Law School Professor Nadine Strossen discussed the issue of campus hate speech at an event at the University of Delaware. The conversation focused on responding to hate speech on...

Video: Ibram X. Kendi and john a. powell on "How the Ideology of Race Shapes Education and Society"

On March 6, 2019, Director john powell spoke as a respondent to Professor Ibram X. Kendi’s book talk on his work, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America . In Stamped , Professor Kendi argues that there are two...

Video: Sunaura Taylor on "Disabled Ecologies: Living with Impaired Landscapes"

Scholar Sunaura Taylor on March 5 presented a talk titled "Disabled Ecologies: Living with Impaired Landscapes" at UC Berkeley co-sponsored by the Haas Institute's Disability Studies Cluster, the Departments of Art Practice, Gender and Women’s Studies, and Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.

Video: "Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism" with Anne Case

The Haas Institute hosted Anne Case on March 1 for a talk that looked at the opioid epidemic in the United States which has caused the deaths through overdose or suicide of hundreds of thousands of people, mostly white, in recent years.

Subini Annamma on "Excavating Possibilities: Disability Critical Race Theory (DisCrit) in Education"

On February 22 the Haas Institute's Disability Studies Cluster and the Graduate School of Education hosted a talk by Subini Ancy Annamma, who is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Kansas. The title of...

Aimi Hamraie on "Making Access Critical: Disability, Race, and Gender in Environmental Design"

The Haas Institute's Disability Studies cluster and School of Environmental Design on February 25 hosted a talk by disability scholar Aimi Hamraie titled "Making Access Critical: Disability, Race, and Gender in Environmental Design." Hamraie is an...

Video: john a. powell on anti-Black state violence

On February 20, 2019, Director john a. powell was keynote speaker at the Symposium on Anti-Black State Violence in the US and Brazil held at the University of California, Berkeley. The symposium aimed to address multiple perspectives on how scholars...

Civic Engagement Videos

These videos, produced by the Othering & Belonging Institute and its partner organizations, were designed to encourage civic engagement and voting. Their aim is to project a more inclusive “We” and to reach disaffected nonvoters and infrequent voters...

Video: john powell on "Investment Without Displacement"

On December 4, 2018, Professors Manuel Pastor and john a. powell spoke of power and race and the cultural erasure that follows when families are pushed out because they can no longer afford their neighborhood at SPARCC’s national convening...

UCOT World Forum: Technology's Effect on Fair and Inclusive Societies

On Tuesday, October 30th, Director john powell participated at the UCOT World Forum in San Francisco. Director powell spoke about why technology must be built for a fair and inclusive society. The audience included 400 people, including silicon...

Bridging - Towards A Society Built on Belonging: Animated Video + Curriculum

This animated explainer video gives a high-level snapshot of our analysis of bridging and breaking as possible responses in our current times.

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Transformative Research Toolkit

Introduction We have seen and participated in transformative research strategies that defeated proposed jail expansions, won millions of dollars for community-prioritized programs, and built new community-led organizations that changed a political...
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Depolarization Day

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...

Book Talk: Before Gentrification, with Tanya Golash-Boza

Dr. Tanya Golash-Boza's book Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap explores how redlining, incarceration, anti-blackness, and gentrification have resulted in DC becoming an extremely unequal city. She presented her book...