Based on the case of Newburgh, a postindustrial city of some twenty-eight thousand people located sixty miles north of New York City in the Hudson River Valley, Sixty Miles Upriver by Dr. Richard E. Ocejo, John Jay professor of sociology, is about what happens when white creative professionals seek out racially diverse and working-class communities in small urban contexts. It explores a fundamental moral problem at the heart of gentrification: that supporters of the process both appreciate racial and social class diversity and recognize that their actions put these groups at risk of displacement.
Dr. Brandi T. Summers, associate professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University, will serve as discussant. Her research examines the relationship between race, space, urban infrastructure and architecture.
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Questions? Please email Remmy Bahati at rbahati@jjay.cuny.edu.
