Wednesday, November 9, 2022 4:30pm
About this Event
31 Williams Dr, Bethlehem, PA 18015
https://las.cas.lehigh.edu/content/confronting-white-renaissance-educational-advocacy-and-gentrification-new-latinx-diasporaLatin American and Latino Studies
Erika Davis
PhD candidate at the University of Florida
This research examines how Latinx educational advocates navigate racialized city politics in nearby Allentown, Pennsylvania, a city whose Latinx population recently surpassed 50 percent. Specifically, it tells the story of how the majority-Puerto Rican Latinx community members, who once revitalized the city during deindustrialization and White flight, resist displacement as the city undergoes a "renaissance," or tax-incentivized, corporate development. Through critical ethnographic methods, this research examines how Latinx community members engage in the racial project of city-level resource allocation to impact educational outcomes locally.