Tina Sacks & Dawn Marie Dow
"Cultural Capital, Systemic Exclusion and Bias in the Lives of Black Middle-Class Women"
Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society and Center for Research on Social Change
April 2, 2019

“At this April 2 event at UC Berkeley, Dawn Dow and Tina Sacks discuss their new books on African American women. Dow’s book, Mothering While Black: Boundaries and Burdens of Middle-Class Parenthood (UC Press 2019), examines the complex lives of the African American middle class—in particular, black mothers and the strategies they use to raise their children to maintain class status while simultaneously defining and protecting their children’s “authentically black” identities.”

Maintaining social welfare programs in the Trump era
by Tina K. Saks

What are some of the current challenges to maintaining social welfare programs for the nation’s most vulnerable people in the Trump era?

Tina Sacks, an assistant professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare, gave a lecture on this topic on Jan. 30, 2019, as part of a series of talks sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI).

Why middle-class black women dread the doctor’s office
UC Berkley News
In conversation with Yasmin Anwar

”The anxiety of being black, female and at the mercy of the U.S. healthcare system first hit Tina Sacks when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. Bette Parks Sacks, then in her 50s, intuitively knew something was wrong but, like many African American women, was afraid her doctor would give her the brush-off.”

“The state of North Carolina has been in the news quite a bit recently. From discriminating against trans* people using the restroom of their choice, to voter ID laws, to its importance as a swing state in the 2016 presidential election, North Carolina is having a moment.“

How Big Data failed Baltimore
MSNBC
Economy / Equality
Tina K. Saks

”In the days following the death of Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old black man who sustained a fatal spinal injury in Baltimore police custody, I was taken back to my time in Baltimore, at the height of America’s “tough on crime” era.”

Death by a Thousand Budget Cuts: The Need for a New Fight for Poor People’s Rights
Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict & World Order
Tina K. Saks
January 17, 2017

”As of January 2017 it appears that, we, indeed, have everything to lose. Donald J. Trump’s rhetorical exhortation to urban—i.e., Black—voters during the 2016 presidential campaign seems all too real now that he has ascended to the US presidency.”

“A Thousand Midnights”: Chicago and the Legacy of the Great Migration, The New Yorker
Tina K. Saks
January 8th, 2016

“When I was growing up, my mother, Bette Parks Sacks, often told me stories about her youth in Mississippi. She spoke in a slow, sweet drawl, despite the fact that she’d spent her entire adult life in Chicago. I knew of the hardships and beauty of the South, transmitted to me through vivid recollections of her childhood and adolescence.”