The Students of Color Conference (SOCC) is UCSA’s oldest and largest conference and provides a safe space for students of color and their allies to strategize around statewide and campus-based actions. The event is free to all UCLA graduates accepted, as the logistics will be covered by the UCLA Graduate Student Association. This year SOCC […]
We, the UCLA Political Sociology and the Global South Working Group, are an intellectual community of graduate students and scholars who share interests on the intersecting issues of Global South socioeconomic development and underdevelopment, political and social movements, labor, and state-society relations. Focusing on the developing world is a central element for us. We worry that much of the claims made […]
For 70 years, there stood a Chicago public housing community known as Cabrini Green. Home to thousands, misunderstood by millions, Cabrini Green once towered over Chicago’s most valuable neighborhoods. A looming reminder of inequality and poverty, Cabrini’s high-rises were demolished and an African-American community cleared to make room for another social experiment: mixed-income neighborhoods. Shot […]
