3420 - Race and Space in Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Region: Lessons in Segregation, Exclusion, and Integration

Session Submission Type: Regional Spotlight Session

Description

The panel provides multiple scholarly perspectives on ongoing collective struggles for racial integration in light of enduring patterns of residential segregation and exclusion in the Philadelphia region. Philadelphia and its suburbs have rich connections to issues of racial segregation and integration, such as the suburban integration efforts of Quakers/Friends, the development of Levittown as the suburban ideal, and the persistence of segregation and appearance of new forms of exclusion as key parts of the city are gentrified. The panel uses the regional focus to highlight larger historical political, social and cultural dimensions to the segregation/integration divide and collective efforts to address it. The panel’s participants offer different perspectives – historical, demographic, political economic and cultural- to address racial segregation, exclusion and integration.

Sub Unit

• Regional Spotlight Sessions

Session Organizer

• Christopher Mele, State University of New York-Buffalo

Presider

• Christopher Mele, State University of New York-Buffalo

Panelists

• Abigail Perkiss, Kean University

• Len Albright, Northeastern University

• Jackelyn Hwang, Stanford University

• Sara Jacoby, University of Pennsylvania