Tony Platt discusses The Scandal of Cal with panelists Profs. Seth Davis and Nazune Menka at Berkeley Law.

170 Law Building at University of California, Berkeley.

Cal is admired worldwide as a bastion of innovation and a hub for progressive thought. Far less known are the university’s roots in plunder, warfare, and the promotion of white supremacy. In The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at UC Berkeley (Aug, 2023 Heyday), Professor Tony Platt looks unflinchingly at the university’s desecration of graves and hoarding of Indigenous property, tracks its role in developing the racist pseudoscience of eugenics in the early twentieth century, and sheds light on the school’s complicity with the military-industrial complex.