http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Sat, 18 May 2013 20:48:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/12/11/john-powell-profile/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/12/11/john-powell-profile/#comments Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:17:12 +0000 Cathy Cockrell http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33256 Civil-rights scholar john powell rethinks notions of race for the 21st century in a recently published essay collection, Racing to Justice. In a Q&A with the NewsCenter, powell discusses the book and his ambitious vision for the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, which he heads at Berkeley.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/12/11/john-powell-profile/feed/ 0 http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520273443 http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520273443#comments Wed, 26 Sep 2012 22:44:57 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33081 First published in 1986, Racial Formation in the United States is considered a classic in the literature on race and ethnicity. UC Press has just published Racial Formation in the 21st Century. The new book marks the 25th anniversary of the seminal work by Michael Omi, professor of ethnic studies at Berkeley, and Professor Howard Winant of UC Santa Barbara.]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520273443/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/04/african-americans-blogging/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/04/african-americans-blogging/#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:00:08 +0000 Yasmin Anwar http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=27700 The blogging community is more racially diverse than one might think. Internet-connected African Americans are more likely to blog than their white and Hispanic counterparts, according to new research from UC Berkeley.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/04/african-americans-blogging/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/04/15/race-and-policy-symposiu/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/04/15/race-and-policy-symposiu/#comments Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:07:51 +0000 Kathleen Maclay http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=9445 A symposium on race and policy will be held next Wednesday (April 20) at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy, focusing on the ways that racism has been institutionalized through public policy and law and how such barriers might be eliminated. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/04/15/race-and-policy-symposiu/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/02/11/onlinedating/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/02/11/onlinedating/#comments Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:00:48 +0000 Yasmin Anwar http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=5544 Has Valentine's Day become post-racial? Not yet, it seems. New research from UC Berkeley suggests that when it comes to dating, cyberspace is as segregated as the real world. Data gathered from more than 1 million profiles of singles looking for love online show that whites overwhelmingly prefer to date members of their own race, while blacks, especially men, are far more likely to cross the race barrier in hopes of being struck by Cupid's arrow. (With video) ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/02/11/onlinedating/feed/ 0 http://ls.berkeley.edu/?q=arts-ideas/archive/faces-immigration-studies-cal http://ls.berkeley.edu/?q=arts-ideas/archive/faces-immigration-studies-cal#comments Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:40:49 +0000 Public Affairs http://dev-newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=2867 Scholarship on the intersection of migration, race, citizenship, and politics has grown rapidly at Berkeley in recent years, along with the demographics of the student population. Faculty member Irene Bloemraad, a sociologist specializing in immigration studies, recently co-led a team of student researchers — to discover whether and how children of immigrants teach their parents about the U.S. political system.]]> http://ls.berkeley.edu/?q=arts-ideas/archive/faces-immigration-studies-cal/feed/ 0 http://townsendlab.berkeley.edu/thl-administration/lab-blog/berkeley-books-philadelphia-stories-americas-literature-race-and-freedom http://townsendlab.berkeley.edu/thl-administration/lab-blog/berkeley-books-philadelphia-stories-americas-literature-race-and-freedom#comments Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:19:04 +0000 Public Affairs http://dev-newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=2639 Antebellum Philadelphia, at the border between North and South, was home to a large and influential "free" African American community, and was viewed as a laboratory in which the possibilities of a future without slavery could be tested. The Townsend Center's Humanities Lab this month features Philadelphia Stories: Americas Literature of Race and Freedom by Samuel Otter, professor of English at Berkeley.]]> http://townsendlab.berkeley.edu/thl-administration/lab-blog/berkeley-books-philadelphia-stories-americas-literature-race-and-freedom/feed/ 0