Gentrifying Blackness With Dr Brandi Summers 1919Radio

Welcome to 1919Radio’s Black Geographies podcast series! This 4-part Black Geographies podcast series brings together four authors in the emerging field of Black geographies to explore the conditions of Blackness across multiple spatial dimensions. The goal of this series is to bring radical ideas of race, space, and the politics of place out of academia and into our community and streets through an engaging and open access medium.
In the second episode of our Black Geographies podcast series, Mohamed Nuur sits down with guest Dr. Brandi Summers to discuss her 2019 book Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post Chocolate City. In this wide-ranging conversation she defines concepts such as gentrification and neoliberalism and analyzes how they relate to Blackness and Black people living across urban contexts from Washington DC to Toronto and beyond. We begin by exploring the history of the H-Street corridor in the post-civil rights era and the resulting impacts of gentrification. Near the end of the episode Dr. Summers discusses diversity and multiculturalism as tools used for the commodification and erasure of Blackness.
Title sequence credits:
Introduction clip: Angela Davis on Democracy Now! Second clip: Sister Souljah response to Bill Clinton Third clip: Kwame Ture on Organizaiton and mobilization Song: The Pharcyde - Runnin'
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