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Join Tanya Maria Golash-Boza for the Before Gentrification Book Tour
Oct 04 2023
“A must-read for those interested in understanding how anti-Black policy decisions drive mass incarceration, gentrification, and dire racial inequality in Washington, DC, and throughout our nation."—Derek Hyra, author of Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino CityBefore Gentrification s
For Other Growing U.S. Cities, Atlanta is a Warning
Aug 01 2022
By Dan Immergluck, author of Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century AtlantaRising home prices and rents are on everyone’s mind these days. In the wake of COVID-19, housing costs rose rapidly in most cities. Yet the U.S. housing crisis is not new, and has been worsenin
Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos Announces Early Career Article Award Winners
May 16 2022
The editorial committee of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos is pleased to announce the award for best article by an early-career scholar published in 2020-2021. The award aims to recognize contributions of the highest academic quality in the multidisciplinary field of Mexican studies for the origi
Managing Supergentrification in a Pandemic
Aug 31 2021
By Jenny Stuber, author of Aspen and the American Dream: How One Town Manages Inequality in the Era of SupergentrificationIn communities across the American West, the COVID-19 pandemic revealed new social class dynamics, if not fractures. The pandemic accelerated existing processes of amenity mi
How the Pandemic’s ‘Zoomtown Effect’ is Reshaping Rural America
Apr 22 2021
By Jennifer Sherman, author of Dividing Paradise: Rural Inequality and the Diminishing American DreamIn the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, rural communities across the U.S. have been experiencing what has been labeled the “Zoomtown” effect: real estate booms fueled by remote workers buying secon