Ian Haney López

Ian Haney López was born and raised in Hawaii to a father from Washington (the Haney part) and a mother from El Salvador (the López side). He teaches constitutional law at the University of California, Berkeley, and has a special interest in how racism has evolved over the last five decades. In “Dog Whistle Politics” (2014), Ian explained the tactics used by the Republican Party since Richard Nixon to win votes by stoking racial anxiety, thereby tilling the ground for Donald Trump. In his most recent book, “Merge Left,” he shows how to neutralize coded racism in politics and build a multiracial progressive future. Ian holds an endowed chair as the Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at the University of California, Berkeley.