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The Bay Area, while still segregated, has (mostly) improved since 2000
Last week we published updates to our Bay Area and national racial residential segregation research projects using updated figures from the 2020 US Census, released last month. And unlike past projects, our latest releases emphasize segregation at the neighborhood level, revealing that six of the 10 most segregated Black neighborhoods in the Bay Area, and half of the region's top 10 most segregated Latino neighborhoods, are located in Oakland. The nine-county Bay Area as a whole, though, has slightly decreased in segregation since 2000, when segregation peaked. But there were a couple exceptions, most notably Marin County (represented in light blue in the image below). See our 2020 Census update project page for key takeaways from both our Bay Area and national segregation projects.
Also: See news coverage of our project update in the San Francisco Chronicle, the East Bay Times, the Bay City News, the Sacramento Bee, the Marin Independent Journal, and the Daily Cal.
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Redefining Who Belongs
Last week we published a new blueprint, titled, "Redefining Who Belongs," to help us understand how movement actors can create and put forth new salient strategic narratives that address underlying dominant beliefs while offering an alternative storyline that fosters the political and economic victories we want to see. Check it out here.
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Our O&B 2021 Conference is in the books!
Thank you to all 2,500+ people who registered and joined us over the last two days in our first virtual Othering & Belonging Conference. Your reactions to the conference's provocations demonstrate your courage and openness to taking that risky but crucial journey to bridge. Look out for more emails from us soon with links to recordings and other cool stuff from the conference.
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Why are women the primary targets for xenophobic hate?
Last week Global Justice Director Elsadig Elsheikh and researcher Basima Sisemore presented the results of their new survey on Islamophobia during a panel organized by Ethnic Media Services. The panel highlighted one of the key findings from the survey that Muslim women are significantly more likely to experience Islamophobia then men. Watch a short highlight from their presentations here, or see the full panel here.
Also, see more recent coverage of their research in the SF Examiner and the Richmond Pulse. And download the survey here.
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Event: Atmospheres of Violence Book Launch
At a time when LGBTQ rights are advancing, why are attacks against trans, queer and/or gender-nonconforming people of color increasing? Join us Tuesday, Nov. 2 at 5pm PT / 8 pm ET to hear from a panel of artists, organizers, and academics who will discuss this question and others posed by Eric A. Stanley's new book Atmospheres of Violence.
Speakers:
- Angela Y. Davis, Professor Emerita, UC Santa Cruz
- Courtney Desiree Morris (moderator), Artist and Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley
- Dean Spade, Professor, Seattle University School of Law
- Eric A. Stanley, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley
- Jules Gill-Peterson, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University
- LaVelle Ridley, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan
This event will be live captioned.
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Event: White Space, Black Hood
Join author Sheryll Cashin for a talk about her recently-released book White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality, followed by a conversation with john a. powell, director of the Othering & Belonging Institute.
This hybrid event will take place IN PERSON at UC Berkeley's Banatao Auditorium (inside Sutardja Dai Hall) and will also be live streamed for those who want to join virtually.
Masks are required for people attending in person.
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Other OBI Updates
- Osagie Obasogie, the head of our Health Disparities research cluster, has been elected to National Academy of Medicine.
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Faculty Scholar David Card, who a labor economist known for his minimum wage research, has won the a 2021 Nobel Prize in economics.
- Assistant Director Stephen Menendian presented to the California Reparations Task Force on the history and contemporary legacy of housing discrimination. His testimony can be seen here and here. Hear coverage of the panel on KQED here.
Upcoming events
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Othering & Belonging Institute
University of California, Berkeley
460 Stephens Hall
Tel: 510-642-3326
Berkeley, CA 94720
United States
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