Research has demonstrated the value of affinity groups that exist alongside mainstream schools or workplaces as support spaces for marginalized people, especially in White male-dominated scientific...

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While Black and visual geographies have examined the image's racial and spatial power, more work is needed to analyze how racial frames of view become spatially embedded. This paper advances such a p...

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AbstractStarting with a discussion of decolonial praxis, this chapter interrogates the production and location of knowledge in language socialization theor

This article argues that folklore (orally transmitted group knowledge) shapes far-right voting by inculcating feeling rules that resonate with nativist and auto...

From Nobel Prizes to national parks, here are 25 ways Berkeley has lit the way forward throughout its history.

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Dr. Joe Griffin, executive director of the violence prevention program Youth ALIVE!, on healing communities and interrupting urban violence.

The U.S. Supreme Court this week reaffirmed the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s attempt to end the longstanding practice of granting citizenship ...

Over the past two decades, suicide rates among Black adolescents have risen 144% — the largest of any racial group, according to UC Berkeley Psychology Professor Jasmin Brooks Stephens. While most res...

This book investigates the dynamics of expansion and normalization of the radical right in the early twenty-first century. The radical right’s popularity with voters dramatically increased, it even en...

'The real thing': West African, West Indian and Afro-American culture at the end of the twentieth century

Low-income Black women face higher risks of death in pregnancy — that’s accepted fact. But in a new book, UC Berkeley scholar Khiara M. Bridges shows the dangerous impact of interpersonal and structur...

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The public health expert and Berkeley professor will unite scholars across campus to address crucial environmental challenges.

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Even a poster of Martin Luther King was yanked from Cal's Multicultural Community Center. Student organizations are banned from hosting events.

Author(s): Cheung, Rebecca; Ballard, Aukeem | Abstract: Purpose: This paper illuminates and amplifies enduring wisdom from the everyday experiences of thriving women of color soc...

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This article draws on ancestral practices of storytelling and weaving to conceptualize a Critical Race Wāhine ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian women) Epistemology for contemporary scholars. Foundational ways...

Research on sexualised drug use often emphasises adverse health outcomes and risk management with limited exploration of the social and ethical dimensions of moral agency and harm reduction practic...

For decades, Cesar Chavez has been honored at UC Berkeley as a symbol of resistance, dignity and Latinx political power. Now, new sexual abuse allegations are prompting faculty to reexamine that legacy and to ask what happens when a movement's hero becomes an apparent source of harm. In response, Berkeley Social Sciences and Chicanx Latinx Studies Program faculty are supporting UC Berkeley's efforts to review the naming of the Cesar Chavez Student Center, and faculty are reframing the conversation around accountability, representation and public memory.

Racism in maternal healthcare is not reserved for the poor. An unsparing picture of inequities in prenatal care and childbirth in the United States, Expectin...

More than 600,000 people leave U.S. jails and prisons annually, a chronic policy concern for the penal state and welfare providers with many interventions recom...