Announcements

Check back here regularly to learn about Luskin Center activities, new reports, and other noteworthy updates about our work.

All is Not Well in the Golden State: The Scourge of White Nationalism in Southern California

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White nationalism is alive in Southern California today. This report examines white nationalism’s history, ideology, and present-day operations, and provides some recommendations for confronting the dangers it poses.

The research team of exceptional UCLA undergraduates included: Sareen Ishanyan, Gavin Quan, Noga Tour, and Jeremy Powel, Grace Johnston-Glick, Mayumi Okazaki, James Nee, Rachel Sass, and Matt Ospina, and Lacy Green.

The group’s work was facilitated by Ph.D. candidate Sarah Johnson, and Professor David N. Myers, director of the Luskin Center for History and Policy.

To read the paper, click [HERE].

You can also find the Executive Summary [HERE].

To listen to Grace Johnston-Glick, Gavin Quan, and James Nee discuss the report on our “Then & Now” podcast, click [HERE].

Pandemics Past and Present: One Hundred Years of California History

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Pandemics Past and Present cover pageAs we continue to navigate the COVID-19 global pandemic, Dr. Kirsten Moore-Sheeley, Jessica Richards, and Talla Khelghati examine the last hundred years of pandemics in California – namely, the Influenza Outbreak of 1918, the AIDS/HIV crisis of the 1980s, and various other influenza outbreaks in recent history.

They explore the division of power between local, state, and federal government in response to these pandemics, the resulting stigmatization of groups and places, and their divergent effects on the economy.

To read the paper, click [HERE]. For key takeaways, click [HERE].

To listen to the authors discuss the report on our “Then & Now” podcast, click [HERE].

“People Are Simply Unable to Pay the Rent” What History Tells us About Rent Control in Los Angeles

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This paper, published October 2018, presents several options that could help ameliorate the economic vulnerability and anxiety of the city’s growing number of rent-burdened residents.

The study is the first major publication of the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy. It was written by Alissa Belinkoff Katz, with historical contributions by Peter Chesney, Lindsay Alissa King, and Marques Vestal. Introduction by Zev Yaroslavsky.

To read the paper, click [HERE].

Luskin Fellow Tyler Reny Publishes Article on White Voting Patterns after the Second Great Migration

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Luskin Innovation Fellow for 2017-2018 Tyler Reny (Ph.D. Candidate, UCLA Political Science) has just published an article based on research funded by the Luskin Center. The article, entitled “Protecting the Right to Discriminate: The Second Great Migration and Racial Threat in the American West,” explores voting patterns in White communities in California in the wake of the Second Great Migration of the 1940s-1960s, when many Black families moved into majority White neighborhoods. Reny’s work suggests that White voters perceived a “racial threat” that significantly altered their voting choices. To view the article, visit this webpage.

Madina Thiam’s Experience at the 2017 Second coordination meeting with C2Cs and UNITIWIN/UNESCO Chairs

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Madina Thiam, a Luskin Center grant recipient for 2017, is a doctoral student in the Department of History at UCLA. She is also the co-editor-in-chief of Ufahamu: A Journal of African History. Madina’s research focuses on the history of Sahel. Her Luskin Center grant allowed her to attend the Second coordination meeting with C2Cs and UNITIWIN/UNESCO Chairs. The meeting is described in her report linked here.