Recent Stories

Precarity and the Predatory Inclusion of Black Women

April 1, 2024

A new article by Caleb Dawson, ISSI Researcher, has been published in Critical Sociology about the predatory inclusion of Black women by for-profit colleges. Dawson draws on Black feminist Marxism to suggest that predatory inclusion depends on precarity as defined as a structural position of vulnerability to violence based on excess responsibilities and the denial of means to meet them.

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...

Students Against K-12 Book Bans

February 26, 2024

Published in Berkeley News, this article features a project led by Pablo Gonzalez, ISSI Graduate Fellows Program Co-Director. The project, started in collaboration with Gonzalez’s Introduction to Chicano History students, provides elementary students with original narratives and illustrations through storybooks. The books center on Chicanx and Latinx stories that historically have been left out of...