A new Mellon Research Initiative, Racial Capitalism, brings together UC Davis College of Letters and Sciences faculty and graduate students to examine the historical relationship between race and capitalism.

A new book by Bruce D. Haynes, UC Davis professor of sociology, and his wife, writer and educator Syma Solovitch, chronicles the journey of Haynes’ Harlem family through three generations.

UC Davis history professor Clarence Walker, who has taken a critical view of Afrocentrism, was honored with the 2015 UC Davis Prize for Undergraduate Teaching and Scholarly Achievement.