<p>We interview Dr. Shani Evans, author of <em>We Belong Here: Gentrification, White Spacemaking, and a Black Sense of Place</em>, published in 2025 by University of Chicago Press. In <em>We Belong Here</em>, Shani Evans explores the dynamics of gentrification from the inside through a case study of Northeast Portland, OR, a historically black neighborhood. Drawing on a rich inventory of ethnographic fieldwork, this book unsettles some of the economistic determinants around gentrification scholarship and foregrounds the significance of race and racism in neighborhood change.</p><p><br></p><h4>Get the book! </h4><p><a href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo238845176.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>We Belong Here: Gentrification, White Spacemaking, and a Black Sense of Place</em>, by Shani Evans. University of Chicago Press, 2025.</a></p><p><br></p><h4>Guest </h4><p><a href="https://profiles.rice.edu/faculty/shani-evans" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Shani Evans, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Rice University</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>