Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC’s Racial Wealth Gap

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Thursday, Apr 25, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm

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Come explore how a century of redlining, disinvestment, and the War on Drugs wreaked devastation on Black people and paved the way for gentrification in Washington, DC. In her new book, Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC’s Racial Wealth Gap, Dr. Tanya Golash-Boza tracks the cycles of state abandonment and punishment that have shaped the city, revealing how policies and policing work to displace and decimate the Black middle class. Through the stories of those who have lost their homes and livelihoods, Golash-Boza explores how DC came to be the nation’s “Murder Capital” and incarceration capital, and why it’s now a haven for wealthy white people. The event will be facilitated by Amani M. Nuru-Jeter.

Tanya Golash-Boza is a proud graduate of DC Public Schools, the University of Maryland (B.A., Philosophy), and the University of North Carolina (MA, PhD, Sociology). She is the Executive Director of the University of California Washington Center, a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Merced, and the author of five previous books on race, racism, and immigration policy.

Amani M. Nuru-Jeter is a Professor of Community Health Sciences and Epidemiology at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, where her research focuses on race and socioeconomic health disparities and the measurement and study of racism as a social determinant of health.