“There is no dispute that income inequality has been on the rise in the United States for the past four decades,” write Emmanual Saez and Gabriel Zuchman in a blog post for the London School of Economics. UC Berkeley professor Saez is a member of the Haas Institute Economic Disparities Faculty Cluster. The blog post framed and expanded on findings from Saez and Zuchman's recently released paper Wealth Inequality in the United States since 1913: Evidence from Capitalized Income Tax Data.
Stephen Menendian, Assistant Director at the Haas Institute, recently spoke with KQED News about who will benefit from the Bay Area's economic boom. In "Oakland Building New Housing, But For Whom?" Stephen was quoted as saying he would like to see a more comprehensive regional approach, like improved transportation and better cooperation between Bay Area cities. "Affordable housing is a good tool but building units now, with the boom already here, is unlikely to prevent or ameliorate the gentrification that is happening now." Read the article.
Elsadig Elsheikh, director of the Haas Institute’s Global Justice Program, was an invited lecturer at the Global Blackness Conference at Duke University on Nov. 6-8. The conference examined historical and contemporary concepts of “blackness,” comparing its emergence and significance across national boundaries.
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 Haas Institute Associate Director Michael Omi's third edition of Racial Formation in the United States, considered a landmark work on how race informs policies and identities and how race has changed and adapted throughout history, was the top 2014 Bestseller in Sociology Books. Read our profile where Michael discusses the comprehensive updates he and co-author Howard Winant introduced in the third edition.
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FACULTY PROFILE: Juana María Rodríguez, member of the LGBTQ Citizenship cluster and a professor of Gender and Women's Studies at UC Berkeley. Prof. Rodríguez discusses the "politics of respectability" in the gay marriage movement and how sexual identity politics influence discourse surrounding public policy decisions. "I think a fair and equitable society is about promoting peace, health, and social harmony. And that needs to include respecting diverse forms of gender expression, diverse forms of kinship and social connections, diverse forms of living and loving—free from poverty, social stigma, and exclusionary practices," says Prof. Rodríguez. Read the profile.
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Events centered on topics, people, and movements embracing a fair and inclusive society. Email us if you'd like to add an event!
NOV. 15
Facing Race: Institutionalizing Racial Equity and Advancing Positive Racial Impacts
Julie Nelson, Haas Institute Senior Fellow and Director of the Government Alliance for Racial Equity, will be joining fellow racial justice advocates for this panel asking: Can we prevent institutional racism by institutionalizing racial equity? Saturday, Nov 15 at 1:50 pm. Dallas, TX
DEC 5
Exploring Law, Disability, and the Challenge of Equality in Canada and the United States
Co-hosted by the Haas Institute Disability Studies Cluster and Diversity and Democracy Clusters, this event will bring together scholars to discuss the achievements and challenges that continue to face persons with disabilities in their social struggle for equality. Find out more about the symposium and register for this free event.
SPRING 2015 #OTHERING&BEL0NGING
"Belonging or being fully human means more than having access. It means having a meaningful voice, and being afforded the opportunity to participate in the design of social and cultural structures." Sign up for our mailing list and help spread the word about our national Othering & Belonging Conference to be held in the San Francisco Bay Area in the spring of 2015. Othering & Belonging will bring together scholars, researchers, advocates, and organizers to examine the issue of “othering,” a set of processes that engender marginality across any of the full range of human differences, such as race, socioeconomic status, gender, religion, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, and more. Othering & Belonging will feature a multi-disciplinary, intersectional examination of the forms of othering in order to craft transformative solutions that promote belonging.
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