No Man's Land: Conquest and Black Education in Gentrifying Urban Cities

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Eight
  In Roundtable Session: Antiracist Educational Research for Social Transformation (Table 1)

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine how Black students experience gentrification as a racialized process of spatial reinvention. Although previous research at the intersection of gentrification and schooling has focused on the increased marketization of education (Posey -Maddox, 2014), the author instead centers gentrification’s libidinal economies to counter the overemphasis on market-based analyses. The libidinal economy in this instance describes the “conscious and unconscious emotional, psychic, and affective dimensions of urban gentrification” (Seitz & Proudfoot, 2021). In this same way then, this study seeks to understanding how Black students feel gentrification as a sensation of mind and body. To accomplish this purpose, I specifically ask: How do Black students narrate their existence in gentrifying education spaces?

Author

• Jeremy D. Horne, University of Texas at Austin
  Presenting Author