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Briefly Noted: Is the Examined Life Worth Living? Because of the Resurrection, It Is.
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Fetching article, this. In a recent edition of the The Chronicle Review, philosopher John Kaag asks whether life is worth living.[1] Anyone even remotely acquainted with the history of philosophy knows that Socrates purportedly said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." Kaag's point in the article is "What Socrates failed to tell us is that the examined one isn't a whole lot better."
In the article, he describes how, as a twelve year old, he found his older brother's copy of Plato's Apology on the back of the family toilet (TMI, no?), read it, and rather soon thereafter decided to become a philosopher. As Kaag describes it, his philosophical turn was accompanied by a sort of melancholy as he began to think critically about life in this world. In the course of the article, he mentions the various sorts of pain that we humans experience in life—unhappy marriages, failed expectations, and so forth.
He cites Albert Camus, who said, "There is but one truly serious philosophical question, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy." As Kaag sees it, the person who can easily answer that question clearly is not a philosopher. Kaag concludes "But here's the thing about not being miserable. Life is still a pathetic ruse: either too painful or too short. You pick."
I'm grateful for philosophers such as Kaag (or Sartre, or Camus, or Nietzsche) who raise such serious questions. In the end, only theology can point the way forward in answering such a question. And, as I see it, only Christian Scripture's "dramatic narrative" can provide proper existential situation (and empirical reality) to which Kaag points.
Christian Scripture opens with a dramatic account of God's creation of the universe. He endows his imagers with manifold capacities—spiritual, moral, rational, creative, relational, and physical—and provides them an environment in which they can flourish. God the King has created a shalomic environment for his imagers, who are to serve as his under-kings and loving stewards of his good creation. In the third chapter of the Genesis account, however, Adam and Eve reject God's kingship and grasp for kingship themselves. In their desire for autonomy, they transgress God's command, and in so doing they become idolaters. Adam and Eve's sin marks a dark and haunting turn in the biblical narrative. In the aftermath of their sin, we seek that God's good shalom has been broken, with the result that humanity now experiences a broken relationship with God, with each other, with the created order, and with self. The painful existential reality that Kaag describes is a result of this Fall.
In response to the Fall and its pervasively painful consequences, Scripture promises a Redeemer who will save us from our sins and set creation free from its groaning. That Redeemer is Christ Jesus, and one day he will return to defeat evil finally, and to bring a new heavens and earth, in which we will live together with him eternally. In this heavens and earth, there will be no more pain, tears, or death, and we will flourish eternally together with Christ.
This narrative is the true story of the whole world and it alone can make sense of the mind-numbing pain that we often experience. In other words, this sprawling, capacious narrative possesses great explanatory power. In addition this narrative is a dramatic narrative. As church father such as Irenaeus showed us, and as modern theologians such as N. T. Wright or Craig Bartholomew remind us, this narrative is a drama into which we enter and participate. Only as we enter into this narrative can we understand and experience the fact that this world is not the way it's supposed to be; and only as we enter into this narrative can we find hope for the day when the coming King will renew and restore it, so that we can dwell in it forever with him.
In a nutshell, our certain hope is that "When the world's present history is over, Christ will be there. As a consequence of the resurrection, the world has a deeply joyful ending." Here in the West, we are (rightly) suspicious of fairy tale endings. We prefer something more "realistic," because we have tasted realities of living in a fallen world. But this fallen world, and its pain and suffering, is less "real" than the resurrected cosmos.
In his essay on fairy tales, J. R. R. Tolkien charts the difference between dyscatastrophe (stories ending in sorrow and failure) and eucatastrophe (stories ending in triumph and deliverance).
He concludes by asking "which is actually the more true?" In summary, because of the resurrection, it's the latter. There is such a thing as a happy ending. To borrow a phrase from Lord of the Rings, "Everything sad becomes untrue." Human evil and pain, in other words, cannot deligitimize happy endings—they cannot because Christ's resurrection has hallowed them.
[1] John Kaag, "The Making of a Philosophy Professor," in The Chronicle Review (Nov 30, 2012), B16.
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Briefly Noted: On David Cooper, Roger Scruton, and Green Philosophy
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For those of our readers not yet acquainted with Roger Scruton, allow me to serve advance notice: Dr. Scruton is not a pony-tailed tree-hugger seeking to lead the world into an embrace of yoga mats and tofu wraps. He is politically conservative writer and philosopher whose work is unfailingly stimulating, and whose recent book, Green Philosophy calls for a conservative environmentalism. Scruton's book is reviewed by David E. Cooper in a recent edition of the Times Literary Supplement (March 2, 2012).[1] Cooper interacts with Scruton's proposal, which puts political realism, reason, and care for one's home at the center of its environmental care paradigm.
Al Gore once called for "rescue of the environment [to be] the organizing principle of civilization." Cooper states, "Scruton's response to this call is that the real 'natural bedfellow' of environmentalism is conservativism, for 'conservativism and conservation are two aspects of a single long-term policy.'" (10) By chronicling the failures of non-government organization, the EU, and the US Environmental Protection Agency, Scruton argues these organizations display a "total lack of realism" on what works in caring for the environment. Scruton wants a more rational, realistic approach to the environment than those associated with traditional environmental (i.e., liberal) policies.
Hence, Scruton's thesis is that "environmental protection comes from the Oikophilia of people." "Oikophilia is Scruton's coined term for "a family of motives at whose centre is love of one's home." Environmentalism often fails in its futile call for one to love everyone and every place, even the whole planet. Scruton's "oikophilia, however, is a sympathy and concern for those who handed down to us the home we love and those to whom, in turn, we shall hand it down." Basically, the more one cares for his/her home and passes that care and concern on to others, the better the community will care for the environment. This proposal, Scruton believes, is more realistic than traditional (liberal) environmentalism. The question Cooper asks, however, is can this realism called "oikophilia" actually be a realistic answer for caring for the environment? (see p. 11)
Scruton's proposal is more compelling and reasonable than its liberal competitors, and yet it falls short precisely because it does not take its starting point, trajectory, and parameters from God's revelation in Christian Scripture. In order to build a robust framework for environmental/ecological ethics, one must take into account at least four Christian doctrines. These four doctrines are in fact the four plot movements of the biblical narrative—creation, fall, redemption, and restoration. These doctrines are central to the Christian faith and indeed can be seen as the four major plot movements in the Christian narrative.[2]
The first movement is Creation, in which we find a created world shaped and formed by the uncreated Triune God; further, it is a good world that God has filled with his image bearers, who are to be stewards of it. If God's world is good, we ought not to trash it. If God created the world so that we could flourish with it in mutual interdependence, then we should not consciously do anything to harm that. The second movement is the Fall, in which God's image bearers rebelled against him, alienating themselves from him, each other, and the entire created order. As a result, God's good and beautiful creation was marred by the ugliness of sin, sin which has deeper and more pervasive consequences than we might typically imagine. Our relationship to the cosmos is no longer one of perfect mutual interdependence. The third movement is Redemption, in which God speaks of One through whom he will redeem his image-bearers and indeed the whole creation. The entirety of the biblical drama points to this One, the Messiah, and the salvation that he will accomplish. We are told that he will redeem not only his image bearers but also the entire cosmos. This brings us to the fourth and final movement, Restoration, in which God restores his good creation. He establishes a new heavens and earth, inhabited by his image-bearers redeemed from among every tribe, language, and nation, who will dwell eternally with him. At this time, we will again flourish and live in perfect harmony on a renewed cosmos, in the glory of God himself.
This narrative provides the framework for a Christian theology of ecological stewardship. Without this framework, humans tend to either enthrone or denigrate the cosmos. In the United States, many political liberals tend to enthrone the cosmos, even creating an alternative soteriology and eschatology with Mother Earth at the center. On the other hand, many political conservatives tend to denigrate the cosmos, mocking any ecological or environmental initiatives. But both of these tendencies are wrong. We are not to worship the cosmos, on the one hand, or trash it, on the other. The cosmos is not ultimate, but neither is it to be denigrated. It is not God, but it is God's good creation. For this reason, we are to be loving stewards of God's good creation, looking backwards to God's creational design and forward to the restored cosmos on which we will dwell eternally and in which we will experience eternal shalom.
For a more extensive essay on a Christian view of the environment, see "Creation Care Founded on the Biblical Narrative (Creation, Fall, Redemption, Restoration)."
[1] David E. Cooper, "With Nature," in Times Literary Supplement (March 2, 2012): 10–11; Roger Scruton, Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously About the Planet (Atlantic Books, 2011).
[2] More than a few recent theological proposals have argued that Scripture contains one basic and overarching narrative within which Christian doctrine finds its home. These proposals are written by a diverse array of scholars, including theologians N. T. Wright, Kevin Vanhoozer, and Michael Goheen, philosophers Albert Wolters and Craig Bartholomew, and biblical scholar Christopher Wright. However, this essay differs from those theologians in two respects. First, whereas Wolters tells the story in terms of three acts, Wright in terms of five acts, and Goheen/Bartholomew in terms of six, this essay sees four acts: creation, fall, redemption, restoration. See N. T. Wright, The New Testament and the People of God (London: SPCK, 1992), 139-43; Kevin Vanhoozer, The Drama of Doctrine (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2005); Craig G. Bartholomew and Michael W. Goheen, The Drama of Scripture (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2004); Albert M. Wolters, Creation Regained (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005); Christopher J. H. Wright, The Mission of God (Downers Grove: IVP, 2006). Second, of the authors above, only Christopher Wright makes extended application to ecological matters.
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How we do race will be consequential to the kind of society we have in the future. Our racing will be impacted by our history, our experience, as well as our imagined future. Our future will be impacted by the way the conscious and unconscious make meaning of our new social constructions. We must intertwine race with the other urgent issues we must confront including extreme inequality, mass incarceration, full participation in our political and cultural structures, and—perhaps most critically—with our most fundamental questions about who we are.
-JOHN A. POWELL
Affirmative Action in the U.S.
Concentrated Poverty & Urban Sprawl
Opportunity & Housing
Race & Education
Racial Formation
Racial Inequality
Racial Justice & Regionalism
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Spirituality & Social Justice
Structural Racialization
john a. powell is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of civil rights, civil liberties, structural racism, housing, poverty, and democracy. john is the Director of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at the University of California, Berkeley, a research institute that brings together scholars, community advocates, communicators, and policymakers to identify and eliminate the barriers to an inclusive, just, and sustainable society and to create transformative change toward a more equitable world.
john holds the Robert D. Haas Chancellor's Chair in Equity and Inclusion and is a Professor of Law, African American Studies, and Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. Previously, he was the Executive Director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University where he also held the Gregory H. Williams Chair in Civil Rights & Civil Liberties at the Moritz College of Law.
john has written extensively on a number of issues including structural racism, racial justice, concentrated poverty, opportunity-based housing, voting rights, affirmative action in the United States, South Africa and Brazil, racial and ethnic identity, spirituality and social justice, and the needs of citizens in a democratic society. He is the author of several books, including his most recent work, Racing to Justice: Transforming our Concepts of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society.
john also founded and directed the Institute on Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota. He has also served as Director of Legal Services in Miami, Florida and was the National Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union, where he was instrumental in developing educational adequacy theory.
john led the development of an "opportunity-based" model that connects affordable housing to education, health, health care, and employment and is well-known for his work developing the frameworks of "targeted universalism" and "othering and belonging" to effect equity-based interventions.
john has lived and worked in Africa, where he was a consultant to the governments of Mozambique and South Africa, and has also worked in India and Brazil. He is one of the co-founders of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council and serves on the board of several national and international organizations. john has taught at numerous law schools including Harvard and Columbia University.
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Director john a. powell participated in a panel on race, which included Congresswoman Barbara Lee and other experts at the Black Repertory Group Theater in Berkeley.
Video: Building Belonging in a Time of Othering, with john a. powell
Haas Institute director john a. powell gives a keynote talk on how a belonging paradigm can reshape our world for the better, with an introduction by The California Endowment''s Tony Iton, on April 9, 2019 at the Othering and Belonging Conference. Download the presentation slides of this talk here...
john a. powell at the closing session of Equity Summit 2018
This video features a conversation with Haas Institute Director john a. powell at the closing session of Policy Link's Equity Summit 2018 in Chicago, which took place between April 11-13. The original video can be found here: https://www.micro.site/policylink
No, Californians are not anti-immigrant
Dear friends, Last week the Haas Institute publicly released the results of the wide-ranging California Survey on Othering and Belonging: Views on Identity, Race and Politics . Conducted in December in English and Spanish among 2,440 Californians, the survey is part of the work of our Blueprint for...
john a. powell on how bridging creates conditions to solve problems
In this short new video, our director john powell talks about the concept of bridging—engaging with people outside of our own familiar group, including with those who hold opposing political views. powell believes that when people who don't share exactly the same political persuasions engage with...
Video: john a. powell brings Belonging to Bioneers
john powell in his keynote at Bioneers, Sunday, Oct. 22, 2017. (Photo: Nikki Ritcher. Courtesy of Bioneers) Carrying his message of belonging to the 28th Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, California, Haas Institute Director john a. powell urged an audience of hundreds of people who packed into a...
America Can't Fix Poverty Until It Stops Hating Poor People
By john a. powell & Arthur Brooks "Hell is other people," famously wrote the French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre at the close of his 1943 play No Exit . While for Sartre this was a philosophically sophisticated point, in America today it has become simply the way we increasingly treat people...
Haas Institute contributes to new book on racial inequality
A new book critical to understanding racial inequities in the United States was released earlier this month and includes a chapter co-written by Haas Institute Director john a. powell and Director of the Just Public Finance program Wendy Ake. The book, titled The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to...
On Speech & Belonging
Over the course of this month there are those who have been scheduled to make appearances on our campus who are not coming here for dialogue. These speakers are not using their right to speak merely to communicate, they are using speech carefully crafted to harm, to demonize, to disparage, to...
Right-wing speakers coming to Berkeley for conflict, not dialogue
BERKELEY, CA: Right-wing, nationalist figures scheduled to make appearances this month at UC Berkeley are coming with the intent to do harm, not engage in dialogue, Haas Institute Director john a. powell argued at a panel discussion on free speech hosted Friday by Chancellor Carol Christ. Without...
Ending DACA 'antithetical' to our deepest values
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Elana Needle, 201-248-9724 Email: Eneedle@raceforward.org Leading Civil Rights and Racial Justice Organizations Condemn Decision to End DACA Ball Now Squarely in Congress' Court WASHINGTON, DC: Today, organizations working to advance civil rights condemn President...
Confederate monuments memorialize white supremacists
Haas Director john a. powell said Thursday that President Donald Trump was siding with white supremacists in his remarks lamenting the removal of Confederate statues. In a radio interview with KPFA's Letters and Politics program, powell said: "I think what Trump is doing, pretty obviously, is...
Berkeley Law Faculty & Staff #NoBanNoWall Statement and Poster of Support
A Statement from Berkeley Law Faculty & Staff President Trump's immigration executive orders, enforcement actions, and xenophobic threats directly impact members of our law school community. They undermine the public mission of our university to ensure access to the talented pool of students...
Haas Institute Participates in National Day of Racial Healing in United States on Jan. 17
The Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society is one of 130 organizations participating in this year's National Day of Racial Healing in the United States. Taking place on January 17, 2017, the daylong series of events is hosted by the Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT)...
A New Year of Engagement and Purpose
Dear friends, On this first day of 2017, I recognize that many of us may be ambivalently moving into this new year, as there is much uncertainty about our future. There are doubts not just about the upcoming change in our political leadership, but there are much deeper concerns for our democracy,...
This is Who We Are: Post Election 2016 Statement
When the Haas Institute came into being four years ago, our vision stated that we would "work on society's most pressing and pivotal issues related to structural inclusion and marginalization," that we would do work that was big-picture and game-changing, and that we would do work even on what...
Masculinity, Anxiety, and Fear of the Other in the Age of Trump
On February 9, 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy stood before the Ohio County Women's Republican Club in Wheeling, West Virginia and presented a list of over 200 State Department employees who were supposedly members of the Communist Party. These individuals, of course, needed to be eliminated...
Psychotherapy and Social Justice: A Dialogue on Othering and Belonging
Note: The location will now be at: First Congregational Church of Oakland, 2501 Harrison St., Oakland, CA 94612 For Immediate Release Psychotherapy and Social Justice: A Dialogue on Othering and Belonging Berkeley, CA. /On Saturday, October 29, The Psychotherapy Institute in Berkeley continues its...
New Report Finds that Women and Girls Continue to Face Overwhelming Gender Bias Across Sectors
Haas Institute co-releases new report with the Perception Institute and leading social scientists with proven solutions to reduce the effects of implicit and explicit gender bias in the media, workplaces, schools, and communities. Berkeley/October 27, 2016: Ahead of the historic 2016 Presidential...
Landmark Decision in Fisher v. Texas Falls on Side of Diversity and Inclusion
Amicus brief filed on behalf of 35 leading social scientists by Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, and Equal Justice Society, argued that UT Austin's admissions policy should be allowed to consider race # # # June 23, 2016 : The Haas Institute for...
Building Power at the Intersection of Immigration and Incarceration: An Event to Discuss Inclusive Practices and Policies in the "Double Is"
john a. powell began his keynote address with a comment on anxiety. In California, he said, whites are no longer the majority, nor even the largest plurality. For many people, this creates "tremendous anxiety." "But how people process that anxiety is based on leadership and the stories we tell," he...
Voting Rights for Immigrants & the Incarcerated; The Case For Inclusion
This is the feature article of our Fall 2015 newsletter. Download full issue here . He pays taxes, volunteers in his community, and is gainfully employed, but still his voice remains unheard. Although today he could be on a politician's reelection campaign poster, Gary Malachi Scott was once on the...
Race and Interconnectedness
Haas Institute Director john a. powell is a frequently sought-after speaker on race, civil rights, spirituality, and social justice. During the last year john was invited to give dozens of talks and interviews across the US on these issues. Here are recaps from four of john's talks that opened up...
New Report on Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Raises Serious Concerns about Corporate Misalignment
tpp_cover.jpg REPORT UPDATED: May 9, 2016 Our new report finds that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the mega-regional trade deal, raises serious concerns about how a world economy reregulated to suit corporate interests would undermine public accountability, transparency, and democratic...
Haas Institute Joins Leading Racial Justice Organizations in Supporting National Commission on Racial Healing and Equity
JAN 28, 2016: The Haas Institute added their public support to the W. K. Kellogg Foundation's launch of the Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) commission. These organizations make up WKKF's America Healing Racial Equity Anchor Collaborative, a unique partnership of 12 leading...
The Other Wealth Gap: The Racial Wealth Rift No One is Talking About
Most of us are at least marginally aware of America's notorious "wealth gap"—the growing cliff between the rich elite and everyone else—that has become so prominent in our national consciousness in recent years. This gap, however, is not one rift, but two. There is the well-known economic gap...
john powell: KPFA Evening Dialogue - A History of Race and Power
by Sara Grossman | November 6, 2014 Haas Institute director john a. powell began his speech Wednesday night with an unexpected analogy. "Race is a little bit like gravity," he told more than 100 audience members at Berkeley's St. John's Presbyterian Church, who were gathered that evening to hear...
November & December, 2013 Activities and Events
Download: November and December, 2013 Activities and Events.pdf View the revised 2013 Year in Review here . On November 1 st , Director john. a. powell presented the work of the Haas Institute to UC Berkeley's Senate Committee on the Status of Women and Ethnic Minorities (SWEM). powell used this...
September, 2013 Activities and Events
In late August and throughout the month of September, Director john a. powell and Associate Director Michael Omi held meetings with the LQBTQ Citizenship, Diversity and Democracy, Economic Disparities and Health Disparities cluster faculty to continue building relationships and provide direction on...
May & June, 2013 Activities and Events
The Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society: Aida Ashouri, the Haas Institute Coblentz fellow published a report that examined the state-by-state waivers to No Child Left Behind, analyzing similarities difference, and their potential for improving student performance and reducing the...
April, 2013 Activities and Events
The Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society: Haas Institute Director john powell conducted workshops on structural racialization at the Barr Foundation and Hyams Foundation in Boston, Massachusetts in May. In April, Professor powell also presented on structural marginalization and implicit...
December, 2012 & January, 2013 Activities and Events
The Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society The Haas Institute published a report on the Impact of Hurricane Sandy on marginalized populations on the eastern seaboard. This report illustrates the damage to public housing and the need for an inclusive approach to disaster planning and relief...
November, 2012 Activities and Events
The Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society As the Robert D. Haas Chancellor's Chair in Equity & Inclusion, Director john powell spoke on the challenges and opportunities of diversities at the university's Hewlett Celebration. (Video forthcoming) Director john powell launched his book,...
October, 2012 Activities and Events
Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society Brought on board two tremendously talented Coblentz fellows, Aida Ashouri and Peggy Li, Berkeley law students who will be assisting the Institute with major projects and important initiatives for the Winter and early Spring. Was visited by the W. K...
Targeted Universalism: Policy & Practice
Download this primer here . Read our press release here . In an era of political polarization and fiscal austerity, policy debates too readily become trapped in a binary of either universal responses or targeted solutions. Universal responses enjoy a degree of legitimacy in a diverse and...
Divided We Stand
In this interview, john a. powell argues that citizenship should be inclusive and we should resist attempts of "othering." He joins The Agenda to talk about the timely issues of immigration, division, race, diversity, and free speech.
Science of Equality Volume 2: The Effect of Gender Roles, Implicit Bias, and Stereotype Threat on the Lives of Women and Girls
The report focuses on how gender bias plays out across various domains, including in the media, workplaces, communities, schools, and our homes. Building upon the Perception Institute's inaugural Science of Equality Volume 1: Addressing Implicit Bias, Racial Anxiety, and Stereotype Threat in...
Segregation in the 21st Century
Haas Director john a. powell, and Assistant Director and Director of Research Stephen Menendian, co-authored an article on Segregation in the 21st Century for the Poverty & Race Newsletter from the Poverty & Race Research Action Council . The article originally appeared in the January-March...
Economic Inequality: A Defining Issue for America's Future
Following the Inequality Policy Brief, here are six ways to minimize the rising economic inequality prevalent in the United States.
Affirmative Action: Where Do We Go From Here?
Written by Haas Institute Director john a. powell, this article delves into why we should talk about race and what should happen next with affirmative action.
Haas Institute Co-Releases Science of Equality Report: Addressing Implicit Bias, Racial Anxiety, and Stereotype Threat in Education and Health Care
New "Science of Equality" Findings Offer Research-Driven Interventions to Combat Discrimination
Responding to Rising Inequality: Policy Brief
A policy brief that offers six policy interventions to ensure opportunity for all.
Where Credit Is Due
Drawing upon history as well as insight into the current crisis, this book shows that this foreclosure and lending crisis is not an anomaly, especially for people of color; nor is it over.
America's Growing Inequality
The book is a compilation of the best and still-most-relevant articles published in Poverty & Race, the bimonthly of The Poverty & Race Research Action Council from 2006 to present.
From Foreclosure to Fair Lending
Haas Institute Director john a. powell contributed the twelfth chapter, "Housing, Race, and Opportunity," on how spatial formation impacts racial formation. - See more at: http://test-haas-inst.pantheon.io/foreclosure-fair-lending#sthash.LQCkSX...
Homeownership Built to Last
Haas Institute Director john a. powell contributed to the first chapter, "Homeownership, Wealth, and the Production of Racialized Space."
Fisher v. Texas: The Limits of Exhaustion and the Future of Race-Conscious University Admissions
Haas Institute Director john a. powell and Assistant Director Stephen Menendian recently wrote an article published in the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform about the Fisher v. Texas case. This article delves into why the Supreme Court's decision in overruling the student was important to race-conscious admissions.
HIFIS Report of potential impact of planned Richmond Bay Campus
The Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society (HIFIS) prepared an analysis of the potential socio-economic impact of the planned Richmond Bay Campus on the surrounding neighborhoods and marginalized communities. This analysis was developed with Richmond community-based organizations Contra...
Seeking Belongingness: Examining Equity, Capability, and Opportunity through Existing Index Schemes.
Summer 2013 Research Fellow Erik Lampmann recently finished a report for the Haas Institute entitled "Seeking Belongingness: Examining Equity, Capability, and Opportunity through Existing Index Schemes." In his report, Lampmann critically analyzes existing literature on "indices of well-being,...
Deepening Our Understanding of Structural Marginalization
Director and Professor john a. powell published an article for the September/October 2013 issue of Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC), entitled "Deepening Our Understanding of Structural Marginalization." Download the article: Sept-Oct 2013 PRRAC Disparities Article.pdf
Closing the Achievement Gap: Looking at No Child Left Behind and the Future of the Waiver Program
This report examines the various state-by-state waivers under No Child Left Behind and the potential for reducing the achievement gap. Download NCLB Report
Constitutionalism and the Extreme Poor: Neo-Dred Scott and the Contemporary "Discrete and Insular Minorities"
The circle of human concern is represented institutionally primarily through public space, yet we are in an era in which the public is increasingly suspect and efforts to privatize both government authority and property and to delegate public functions are expanding rapidly.
Poverty and Race Research Action Council Newsletter
john powell had left his long-time position as Executive Director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race & Ethnicity at The Ohio State University to head the new Haas Institute for an Equitable Society (formerly the Haas Diversity Research Center) at the University of California, Berkeley. P&R editor Chester Hartman was in the Bay Area in April and took the opportunity to interview john about his new work—what follows is a summary of his responses.
Beyond Public/Private: Understanding Excessive Corporate Prerogative
In this article, john powell and Stephen Menendian explore the underpinnings of excessive corporate power, and the ways in which the private/public distinction has been used to mask and expand those prerogatives. - See more at: http://test-haas-inst.pantheon.io/beyond-publicprivate-understanding-exc...
Equity in Health Transformation
On October 24, 2018, Professor john a. powell gave a keynote address at the Healthier Washington Medicaid Transformation Learning Symposium in Seattle, WA. The audience consisted of 300 health care professionals from regional healthcare coalitions, state agencies, and community based organizations...
Advancing Race Equity - Move it Forward
On September 25, 2018, Director john a. powell spoke to an audience of approximately 125 at the New York State Council on Children and Families conference on racial equity and healing. powell spoke on strategies to co-create alternative spaces for healing through bridging and local governments'...
SCG Conference 2018: Our Common Humanity
On September 17, 2018, Director john a. powell participated in the Southern California Grantmakers Conference on Our Common Humanity. The conference focused on strategies the philanthropic sector can employ to generate systemic change for the communities they serve, center racial justice, and build...
Presentations, Videos
john a. powell at the Global White Privilege Conference in Toronto
On Friday, May 11, Director john a. powell spoke at the Global White Privilege Conference hosted by Ryerson University in Toronto. In front of a group of over 100 conference attendees, john spoke about the importance of transformative vs transactional change, understanding systems thinking, and how...
john powell addresses the National Interagency Community Reinvestment Conference
On March 20, 2018 Haas Institute Director john a. powell gave a keynote address at the National Interagency Community Reinvestment Conference in Miami. The address discussed Federal Reserve data confirming that wealth and income inequality in the U.S. is accelerating. powell also talked about how...
john powell addresses Government Alliance on Race and Equity in Sacramento
On February 20, 2018, Haas Institute Director john a. powell gave the keynote address at the Sacramento-based Government Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE) 2018 Capitol Cohort speaker series. The event was attended by over 170 state government employees from a range of sectors (education, public...
john powell's address at El Centro de la Raza's 45th anniversary gala
On September 30, 2017, professor powell gave a keynote address for El Centro de la Raza's annual Building the Beloved Community Gala, celebrating the 45th anniversary of the organization's founding. Attended by El Centro members, community members, and local organizers, john's keynote address...
john powell hosted by the South East Seattle Education Coalition
On September 28, 2017, professor powell gave a keynote address on identity, belonging, and the role of narratives in creating change. Hosted by SESEC (South East Seattle Education Coalition), this event brought teachers, administrators, community activists, and many others together for an evening...
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February 17, 2017 On Friday, February 17, HIFIS director john a. powell opened the regional U.S. gathering of the World Meeting of Popular Movements in Modesto, California. Speaking to an invite-only audience of 20 U.S. bishops—including the second highest-ranking Vatican official, Cardinal Turkson...
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January 13, 2017 On January 13, 2017, professor powell met with the Colorado Fiscal Institute in Denver, Colorado, for the institute's annual Fiscal Forum. Professor powell spoke to a large audience comprised of community members and advocates, policy groups, organizing groups, and state and local...
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December 2nd, 2016 - Haas Institute hosted a public forum to explore the forces behind the housing and displacement crisis in California. Speakers Maria Poblet, Richard Walker, and john powell presented to over 150 people in downtown Oakland. The themes of extreme economic inequality, racial...
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Building Community in an Age of Anxiety and Polarization
September 27, 2016 Building Community in an Age of Growing Anxiety and Polarization. A talk at Scripps College by Director john a. powell. Download the presentation .
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October 5, 2016 Director john powell presented the opening keynote at the 23rd Annual Affordable Housing Conference, a national housing conference organized by Housing Washington October 4-6, 2016. Prof. powell spoke on the emerging national housing crisis, changing demographics, and housing policy...
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Giving Birth to a Society in Which Everyone Belongs
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From Poverty to Prosperity: An Opportunity Framework and Analysis for Economic and Social Mobility in Kansas City Region
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Blog: Weaponizing Hate
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May 19, 2016: New White Identity Deemed Vital in Changing Society (Mad River Union)
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March 4, 2016: March Fourth/Forth! (LinkedIn Pulse)
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Ilmarin
"Varda and Manwe" by Natalia Nikitin
Pronunciation il-mar-in
Other names Halls of Manwë and Varda
Location atop Taniquetil
Type Building
Inhabitants Manwë and Varda
Events High feast
Ilmarin referred to the mansions of Manwë and Varda.[1][2]
2 Etymology
3 Other uses
The domed halls[3] situated on the summit of Taniquetil, the highest peak of the world, from where Manwë here set his throne, and spirits shaped like hawks and eagles constantly came with news of events in Arda. Manwë and Varda "could look out across the Earth even into the East". [4][5]
During the high feast before the Darkening of Valinor, the Maiar, Vanyar, and Noldor sang before Manwë and Varda in their halls.[6]
[edit] Etymology
Tengwar, Quenya mode
Ilmarin is Quenya[7] for "mansion of the high airs".[1][2] Christopher Tolkien has noted that Ilmarin is related to such words as Ilmarë and Ilmen.[8]
In the poem Namárië, the dwelling of Manwë and Varda is given the Quenya name oromardi "lofty halls".[9][10]
[edit] Other uses
In one poem, the name Ilmarin is used for Valinor, and in the Song of Eärendil the name "Hill of Ilmarin" refers to Oiolossë.[9][2]
↑ 1.0 1.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Appendix: Elements in Quenya and Sindarin Names"
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 J.R.R. Tolkien, "Unfinished index for The Lord of the Rings", in Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (eds), The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, p. 217
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Notes and Translations", in The Road Goes Ever On (J.R.R. Tolkien, Donald Swann), p. 69
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Valaquenta: Account of the Valar and Maiar According to the Lore of the Eldar"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Beginning of Days"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Darkening of Valinor"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings", in Parma Eldalamberon XVII (edited by Christopher Gilson), p. 20
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Appendix: Elements in Quenya and Sindarin Names", entry ilm-
↑ 9.0 9.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, "Farewell to Lórien"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Early Elvish Poetry and Pre-Fëanorian Alphabets", in Parma Eldalamberon XVI (edited by Christopher Gilson, Arden R. Smith, Patrick H. Wynne, Carl F. Hostetter and Bill Welden), p. 97
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