2156 - Gentrification, Race, and Space

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

A large amount of sociological research interrogating the spatial dynamics of race and inequality focuses on the examination of the physical geography of racial residential segregation and the connection between differential resources and racially organized neighborhoods. In the past two decades sociologists have begun to examine a corresponding social process that complicates issues of segregation, race, and space—processes of gentrification; more specifically the movement of whites into historically African American neighborhoods and the issues these migration patterns raise related to space, resources, and white domination. This panel situates these issues within the theme of the 2019 ASA annual meeting theme—social justice—by specifically expanding the discussion to a truly interdisciplinary forum, putting sociology in conversation with practitioners engaged in the negotiation of race, space, and social justice.

Sub Unit

• Presidential Panel

Session Organizer

• Wendy Leo Moore, Texas A&M University

Presider

• Wendy Leo Moore, Texas A&M University

Individual Presentations

• Gentrification: First Come the Artists - DeAnna Dodds Cummings, Juxtaposition Arts; Roger Cummings, Juxtaposition Arts

• The Bright Side of Gentrification - James Garrett, Jr., 4RM+ULA Urban Landscape Articulation

• A Haven and a Hell: Gentrification and the Dual Roles of the Ghetto in Black America - Lance Freeman, Columbia University

• Gentrification and the Politics of Class in the Black Community - Waverly Duck, University of Pittsburgh

Discussant

• Wendy Leo Moore, Texas A&M University