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Who We Talk About When We Talk About Gentrification

When the topic of gentrification is at hand, recent headlines suggest the stakes of the debate. “Gentrification Isn’t a Benign

This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

A recent report found that the city I call home—Long Beach, California, located on the Pacific Ocean along the southern

Afro-Nicaraguans have been living in the shadow of infrastructure megaprojects for more than a century as both landholders and laborers.

Since the 1980s, policymakers have extended the market logics of risk and profit to encompass all the basic necessities for