News Brief: Detailing the Connection Between Gentrification and Racist Police Harassment
Added 2020-08-11 16:26:15 +0000 UTCOne point brought up in Episode 116, in particular, highlighting the connection between real estate interests and over-policing, solicited a lot of feedback from listeners. In this News Brief, we wanted to expand upon this topic by interviewing an academic source we cited in the episode: assistant professor of sociology at the University of Colorado Denver Brenden Beck, whose work focuses on the intersection between "urban development" projects and the targeted, sustain harassment of communities of color.
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Guest
Brenden Beck is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Colorado Denver who studies policing, city budgeting, housing markets, and suburbanization. Follow him on Twitter @BrendenBeck.
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Show Notes
The Role of Police in Gentrification
Brenden Beck | August 4, 2020 | The Appeal
New York’s Forgotten Eviction Crisis: Title I Housing and Mass Displacement in the 1950’s
Policy Justice Solutions | July 19, 2016
Highways gutted American cities. So why did they build them?
Joseph Stromberg | May 11, 2016 | Vox
How the Coastline Became a Place to Put the Poor
Jonathan Mahler | December 3, 2012 | The New York Times
Jane Jacobs, Robert Moses, and the Battle Over LOMEX
James Nevius | May 4, 2016 | Curbed
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Transcript
A full transcript of this News Brief coming soon.
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Comments
This is my new favorite episode. Excellent topic.
2020-09-05 10:55:21 +0000 UTCWould you guys be interested in posting videos of these episodes (I'm talking the main free episodes) on YouTube? Something similar to how Jacobin is doing it right now with their Stay at Home series
Danil Thorstensson
2020-08-13 06:28:19 +0000 UTCI think it would be interesting to hear some geography voices on this issue too: Desiree Fields comes to mind.
Eoin O'Mahony
2020-08-12 11:58:34 +0000 UTC
