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Understanding K-12 Education Experts and Elites

March 11, 2024

Eos Trinidad, faculty affiliate of the Center for Research on Social Change, has published a new article, “Interviewing K-12 education experts and elites,” in the journal Frontiers in Education. Trinidad discusses the importance of better understanding the influence experts have on education as a way to contextualize public skepticism...

Communicative Justice in Health and Medicine

February 26, 2024

A new book by Charles Briggs, Berkeley Center for Social Medicine Co-Chair, will be published by Duke University Press in April. The introduction is available to read online (for free) now. Incommunicable: Toward Communicative Justice in Health and Medicine examines the failures in health communication across geographic, racial, and class boundaries and analyzes their negative effects on patients, doctors, and healthcare providers. Briggs analyzes linguistic and...

Black Life in the Face of Environmental Racism

February 26, 2024

Tianna Bruno, faculty affiliate of the Center for Research on Social Change, has published a new article questioning the exclusive focus of Environmental Justice studies on Black death and activism. This article, published in Society and Space, draws on Black feminist geographies and pushes scholars to behold Black life and futurity in a broader and more nuanced way...