Nation, World + Society

UCLA history professor Kelly Lytle Hernández’s Million Dollar Hoods project that maps the costs of incarceration in Los Angeles is now housed at the center.

Lecturer Tananarive Due uses the acclaimed horror blockbuster and other films and books to examine how depictions of blackness have shaped real-life attitudes and prejudice.

Political scientist Margaret Peters says historically trade barriers meant more open immigration policies, while free trade meant more immigration restrictions.

The third quarter report notes that the economy has grown, despite the chaos in Washington, D.C.

UCLA Anderson Review makes available to a broad audience the research that regularly appears in leading academic journals.

In this Q&A, he explains how ending DACA would harm economic growth, the role immigrants play in the economy and what should happen next.

UCLA researchers have launched a project to design policies in countries where corruption and conflict are undercutting natural abundance. The project's first summit is this week at UCLA.

Panelists at UCLA event noted that now is the time for everyone who supports immigration reform to advocate for those who are undocumented.

UCLA researchers intend to develop devices to help patients easily conduct their own health screenings and help doctors be aware of their patients’ long-term risks.

Social scientists studying inequality and bias should more carefully select names used to represent race, because some names might be signaling more than race.

Since its founding, the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment has produced analytical research to shape public policy and public opinion on labor issues.

Seventy percent enrolled in either two- or four-year colleges, but only 25 percent went on to earn a college degree within six years.

This donation from alumnus A. Barry Cappello will provide scholarship support and extensive training opportunities for students interested in becoming trial attorneys.

James Gelvin suggests volunteers are drawn to a value system that asserts aggressive machismo, disparages work, and sustains the impulse for immediate gratification.

Under the direction of professor Ingrid Eagly, the students helped immigrant mothers and children detained at the South Texas Family Residential Center prepare for their interviews.

UCLA researchers’ analysis of posts in a forum on the website Stormfront shows coping mechanisms that range from rejection to reinterpretation to acceptance.

UCLA history professor Joan Waugh, one of the nation's preeminent scholars on the Civil War, shares how the historic era and the Confederacy touched the state.

UCLA and the Los Angeles Unified School District are working together to replicate the success of their school partnership in Koreatown in South L.A.

In his award-winning book, UCLA professor Benjamin Madley meticulously details state-sanctioned killing and also intrepid resilience.

A national network of researchers gathered at UCLA to dissect findings on race, ethnicity and politics all derived from the same innovative and singular data set.

At UCLA, the proportion of female faculty in these fields has grown dramatically since the 1980s, but there is still room for improvement.

On International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, Ulia Gosart takes stock of how far indigenous people have come on the world stage and how far they have to go.

The Latino Policy and Politics Initiative at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs will fill a critical research gap and provide a think tank around political, social and economic issues.

Scholars are and tribe members are developing educational resources that shed light on this vital part of California’s indigenous history and also on its future.

Ethan Elkind writes that not only have parking policies failed to improve mobility, they’ve made housing less affordable and hurt the environment.