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From “Upscaling” to Uhauling: Perspectives on Black/Queer Gentrification in Conversation, April 14th @ 7pm EST

How do the politics of gentrification play out across race, class, gender, and sexuality? What do these politics look like, and how must we intervene in them to produce a Black and queer city? Join Brandi Summers (UC Berekeley), author of Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City, and Jen Jack Gieseking (U of Kentucky), author of A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers, as they are joined in conversation with Desiree Fields (UC Berekeley) to discuss the similarities, differences, and incommensurabilities between their “Queer New York” and the “Post-Chocolate City,” their participants, and the processes of gentrification in the late 20th and early 21st century US cities.

A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers by Jen Jack Gieseking

Over the past few decades, rapid gentrification in New York City has led to the disappearance of many lesbian and queer spaces, displacing some of the most marginalized members of the LGBTQ+ community. In A Queer New York, Jen Jack Gieseking maps both the political, economic, and geographic dispossession and survivance of lesbian and queer communities. A Queer New York is an eye-opening account of how lesbians and queers have succeeded in carving out spaces—and lives—in a city that has consistently pushed its most vulnerable citizens away, and, in so doing, contributed to twenty-first century gentrification and urban development.

Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City by Brandi Summers

While Washington, D.C., is still often referred to as “Chocolate City,” it has undergone significant demographic, political, and economic change in the last decade. In D.C., no place represents this shift better than the H Street corridor. Brandi Thompson Summers documents D.C.’s shift to a “post-chocolate” cosmopolitan metropolis and offers a theoretical framework for understanding how blackness is aestheticized and deployed to organize landscapes and raise capital. In Black in Place, Summers analyzes how blackness—as a representation of diversity—is marketed to sell a progressive, “cool,” and authentic experience of being in and moving through an urban center.

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