Shani Adia Evans, Ph.D.

A friend recommended a book on this topic: "Blood Money: The Story of Life, Death, and Profit Inside America's Blood Industry”

New Books: We Belong Here: Gentrification, White Spacemaking and a Black Sense of Place — Urban Affairs Review We interview Dr. Shani Evans, author of We Belong Here: Gentrification, White Spacemaking, and a Black Sense of Place , published in 2025 by University of Chicago Press. In We Belong Here , Shani Ev...

🎧 NEW on UAR Remixed!! Our interview with @shaniadiaevans.bsky.social on their book, "We Belong Here: Gentrification, White Spacemaking, and a Black Sense of Place." Find us on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

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Black Women Fight for Life in Houston's Most Toxic — and Gentrifying — Neighborhood In Settegast, where the average person dies before retirement age, Black women battle environmental racism and a record increase in cost of living.

Recent research, co-led by Black women researchers and conducted specifically with Black women residents, found that 80% of Black women in this neighborhood live in high-risk soil contamination zones, with 80% of those residents reporting chronic health conditions.
capitalbnews.org/houston-blac...

The American South’s Missing Pools and Lakes In America, whether we can swim — and whether we have access to water at all — is closely tied to race.

"I drove all over Georgia investigating places where people used to swim that faded from the map after integration: pools filled, lakes drained, beaches sliced into private properties."

Hannah S. Palmer for @earthislandjournal.bsky.social: www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...

A copy of the book "we belong here: gentrification, white spacemaking, and a black sense of place" by Shani Evans. The book is on a brown wooden table. A persons hand (my, Ian Kennedy's hand) is visible. The fingernails are painted pale purple in an immaculate home manicure 💅.

I loved this new book by Shani Evans at Rice. It's an important theoretical contribution to our understanding of space and race within a detailed ethnographic account of change in a (formerly) Black neighborhood in Portland, OR. #socsky #academicsky @ricesocsci.bsky.social

We Belong Here A landmark study that shows how Black residents experience and respond to the rapid transformation of historically Black places.   Although Portland, Oregon, is sometimes called “America’s Whitest ci...

Suggested summer reading! In her new book, ASA member Shani Adia Evans @shaniadiaevans.bsky.social‬ @ricesocsci.bsky.social looks at how Black Portlanders in one Oregon neighborhood navigate gentrification & White spacemaking. ‪@uchicagopress.bsky.social‬ bit.ly/4lSbgvV

Moment of Joy 😄 "That's my photo right there!" @bikejc.org Ward Tour. ~We Outside~ Oonee Pod, Public Art.

We Belong Here, the new book by Rice’s Shani Adia Evans, explores how Black Portlanders navigate gentrification and White spacemaking. Out now from Chicago Press. #RiceSocSchi #ShapingTheFuture

Join #ASACulture for the #Culture & #ContemporaryLife #TalkSeries from Noon to 1:00 pm ET on May 23, 2025. Learn how to become a #publicsociologist! Learn how to produce a #podcast, ✍️ an #opED, and end up on a #documentary (or how to produce your own)!

This Wednesday at Kindred Stories, the best bookstore in Houston

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Starting by sharing that Brittany Murray
and I are proud to share our newest paper “Missing the Forest for the Trees: Toward a Networked Racial Analysis of White Parents in Education Policy and Research” at Educational Researcher

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Why Quincy Jones should be prominently featured in US music education − his absence reflects how racial segregation still shapes American classrooms Composer Quincy Jones, who died in November 2024, was a titan of 20th-century American music. So why don’t music majors study his work?

Why Quincy Jones should be prominently featured in US music education − his absence reflects how racial segregation still shapes American classrooms theconversation.com/why-quincy-j...

🚨 New on the blog! Corey M. Abramson (Rice U. Sociology) reflects on AI as part of the sociologist's evolving toolkit in "From Carbon Paper to Code: Crafting Sociology in an Age of AI"

contexts.org/blog/soc-ai/

#sociology #publicsociology #inequality #Mills

Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)

projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

Toumani Diabaté & Sidiki Diabaté - Jarabi YouTube video by NOISE CHAMBER

Sad to learn that Toumani Diabate died at just 58 in July. His music has been my work soundtrack for more than 20 years.

This what I argue in my book We Belong Here - we need to think about racial change and class change in urban neighborhoods as intersecting processes. Race and class are too often conflated in gentrification research.

Race, Class, and the Displacement of White Residents from Gentrifying U.S. Neighborhoods Abstract. Are the adverse consequences of gentrification distributed more along racial or class lines? To answer this question, scholars must consider when

What happens to White people displaced from gentrified neighborhoods? My newly published article shows they are demographically similar to non-White displacees but end up in better-off neighborhoods. academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...

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Come work with us at the Reproductive Equity Action Lab! We’re taking applications for a postdoctoral research scholar for the 2025-26 school year, with the option to renew up two years in total (extended deadline January 3) 1/
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2024 is the centennial of James Baldwin's birth! Throughout the year, there are celebrations of every sort. Among them: the reminder that JB Review’s 10th anniversary lands in this momentous year!

I’m also aiming to get to the Schomburg’s Baldwin exhibition before it closes Feb 28th.

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SPECIAL ISSUE

Next summer, TSQ will release a special issue on queer nightlife edited by AminGhaziani.bsky.social. Read a first article from the special issue, a cross-disciplinary conversation on queer nightlife, at bit.ly/3Z7hrCb

What can sociologists uniquely contribute to this conversation?

Contexts' "in briefs" summarize new #sociology research. For Fall '24, our grad team writes up work on parenting gender, cultural appropriation, rural LGB lives, international workers' pay, women buying sex, status consistency, and more! Read free at: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

Segregation Academies in Mississippi Are Benefiting From Public Dollars, as They Did in the 1960s ProPublica identified 20 schools in the state that likely opened as segregation academies and have received almost $10 million over the past six years from the state’s tax credit donation program.

'ProPublica identified 20 schools in the state that likely opened as segregation academies and have received almost $10 million over the past six years from the state’s tax credit donation program.'
www.propublica.org/article/miss...

Bilal: Live at Glasshaus | Full Film 4K | feat. Questlove, Common, Robert Glasper, Burniss Travis YouTube video by Glasshaus

Bilal: Live at Glasshaus | Full Film 4K | feat. Questlove, Common, Robert Glasper, Burniss Travis youtu.be/nB7fhyqh0IM

(been saying it to anyone who will listen) Watch this film. An extended musical riff around the story of the murder of Lumumba: on decolozination, neocolonialism, the UN, Third Worldism, CIA, jazz and so much more. Incredibly inventive formally and so powerful. Was left stunned at the end of it!