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The New York Times explores the January 6th pro-Trump mob attack through a historical lens(link is external) in an interview with ISSI's Center for Right-Wing Studies Larry Rosenthal...Read more about Making Sense of the Capitol Attack

Tina Sacks, Chair of ISSI's Center for Research on Social Change, published a new opinion article on CNN. Many Black Americans have expressed reluctance to take the vaccine, and Sacks explains how the appalling, yet lasting, legacy...Read more about When Black People are Wary of Vaccination, It's Important to Listen

The ISSI Center for Ethnographic Research faculty affiliate is a recipient of the...Read more about Congratulations Jovan Scott Lewis!

ISSI's Latinx Research Center(link is external) has a new podcast, "Scars and Healing/Xicatrices y Xanaciones," dedicated to healing the wounds of Latinx communities by first making them visible. Episode 1, "What's in a Name?" is...Read more about Scars and Healing/Xicatrices y Xanaciones: New Podcast!

In a new article in Theory into Practice, ISSI faculty affiliate Patricia Baquedano-López introduces a framework that centers indigenous educational(link is external)...Read more about Learning with Immigrant Indigenous Parents in School and Community

In a new Public Health Post article, ISSI's Berkeley Center for Social Medicine affiliates Seth Holmes and Miriam Magaña Lopez explore the...Read more about COVID-19 and ICE Raids

ISSI's Center for Research on Social Change faculty affilate Nikki Jones has won the 2020 Michael J. Hindelang Award(link is external) from the...Read more about Congratulations to Nikki Jones

Two of ISSI's affiliates, Tina Sacks and Larry Rosenthal, are featured in a recent Berkeley News article about the impact of Kamala Harris's biracial and multicultural roots in her journey to the vice presidency. Tina Sacks, Chair of the Center...Read more about Kamala Harris's Rise, Multicultural Roots and Challenges

ISSI faculty affiliate Travis Bristol and ISSI Graduate Student in Residence Sarah Manchanda co-authored this new article in the Peabody Journal of Educationon...Read more about Supporting Black Male Preservice Teachers

Naniette Coleman, ISSI grad student in residence and PhD Candidate in Sociology, wrote this op-ed in The Sacramento Observer. Coleman argues that...Read more about How Prop 24 Helps Communities of Color

Luis Tenorio, PhD Candidate in Sociology and an affiliate of ISSI's Center for Ethnographic Research, published a new article in the Russell Sage FoundationJournal. Based on ethnographic research, "...Read more about New Article on Special Immigrant Juvenile Status

ISSI graduate student in residence Kristen Nelson, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, is a recipient of the K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award(link is external) from the Association of American Colleges and Universities....Read more about Congratulations Kristen Nelson

The Berkeley Center for Social Medicine mourns the loss of Sam Dubal, MD, PhD, a medical anthropologist and an affiliate of BCSM for many years, first as a student, when he was a co-founder of the group that became the ...Read more about Honoring the Life of Sam Dubal

ISSI Faculty Affiliate Ian Haney López co-authored this opinion essay in the New York Times. López asserts that presidential candidate Joe Biden can...Read more about Latinx Voters and the 2020 Election

An interview with ISSI's Center for Right-Wing Studies chair Larry Rosenthal about his new book Empire of Resentment: Populism's(link is external)...Read more about Empire of Resentment

Isabel García Valdivia, ISSI Graduate Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, published a new article titled "Legal Power in Action: How Latinx(link is external)...Read more about Legal Power in Action

In "The Living History of Slavery and Imperialism: Healing and Empowerment in the time of Covid-19(link is external)," ISSI Interim Director Stephen Small recounts the...Read more about The Legacy of Slavery and Imperialism and Its Relevance During the Pandemic

In her Inside Higher Ed essay, "Through a Deficit Lens(link is external)," ISSI Grad Student in Residence Sarah Manchanda...Read more about Through a Deficit Lens

"To Dismantle Systemic Racism, White People Must Be Willing to Give Up Their Power(link is external)" is an article...Read more about Dismantling Systemic Racism