..Sociology in My Neighborhood: DC Ward Six

Today Washington, D.C., seems like a terrain of hyper-gentrification and widespread displacement. Yet D.C. has also been and continues to ...

I was invited to Warsaw to give a talk on memorials to socialism in Washington, DC: " The Other Washington Consensus: Remembering Soci...

It was a great treat to watch a talk by UCLA History Professor Robin Kelley , in which he explains his term "racial capitalism." ...

In preparation for my urban class today, I was looking at Thomas Sugrue's The Origins of the Urban Crisis  and saw this quotation that ...

The wonderful archivists at GWU Special Collections have posted online Anita Rechler's fascinating MA thesis:  https://scholarspace.lib...

In this blog, I have noted how gentrification often acts like settler colonialism. Gentrification is often portrayed as motivated by "...

Yesterday, the Washington Post reported on the Takoma Junction development, which I discussed in a previous post . In the article , a city...