University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University
Academic work
Institutions
University of California,Berkeley School of Law
john a. powell (born 1947) is an American law professor. He leads the UC Berkeley Othering &Belonging Institute[1] (formerly known as Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society[2]) and holds the Robert D. Haas Chancellor's Chair in Equity and Inclusion,Professor of Law and Professor of African American Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of California,Berkeley School of Law.[3][4] powell spells his name in lowercase based on the idea that we should be "part of the universe,not over it,as capitals signify".[5]
powell was born on May 27,1947[6] in Detroit,Michigan. He was raised by his mother and father,both sharecroppers from the South. His father was a Christian minister.[7]
powell was previously the executive director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University.[8] He also taught civil rights law,property law and jurisprudence and held the Earl R. Larson Chair of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law at the University of Minnesota Law School.
He is a co-founder of the Poverty and Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) and serves on the boards of several national organizations including Tides and the McKnight Foundation.
Views
powell has proposed that white identity was forged in the 17th century in order to police social hierarchy in the Thirteen Colonies of pre-independence America.[10]
Publications
The Rights of Racial Minorities:The Basic ACLU Guide to Racial Minority Rights,2nd ed. (with L. McDonald). The American Civil Liberties Union,1993.
The Rights of Racial Minorities:The Basic ACLU Guide to Racial Minority Rights-Young People's Version (With L.McDonald). American Civil Liberties Union,1998. ISBN9780606137416
In Pursuit of a Dream Deferred: Linking Housing and Education Policies (with Gavin Kearney and Vina Kay). New York:Peter Lang Publishing, 2001. ISBN9780820439433
↑ Denise Herd (September 6, 2019). "Berkeley Talks transcript: john powell on rejecting white supremacy, embracing belonging". University of California, Berkeley. 17th Century, and the creation of white identity as we know it today actually has gone through several iterations, but whites were not at the top of the food chain. Whites were the middle stratum. Who was at the top of the food chain? The elites and they did not consider themselves white. Whiteness was about creating an identity and the role of whiteness was to police those at the bottom.
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