Talking Data Equity with Dr Tanya Golash Boza founder of Racism, Capitalism, and the Law Lab

Dr. Tanya Golash-Boza's book "Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap" explores how redlining, incarceration, anti-blackness, and gentrification have resulted in DC becoming an extremely unequal city. She presented her book followed by a panel discussion at UC Berkeley on Thursday, March 14, 2024. The panel included Felix Owusu, a Postdoctoral Scholar at UC Berkeley; and Carolina K. Reid (moderator), Professor of Affordable Housing and Urban Policy in the Department of City and Regional Planning. Tanya Golash-Boza is the Executive Director of the UC Washington Center, and Professor of Sociology at UC Merced. This event is organized by the Othering & Belonging Institute and co-sponsored by UC Berkeley's Division of Equity & Inclusion.

Learn how a century of redlining, disinvestment, and the War on Drugs wreaked devastation on Black people and paved the way for gentrification in Washington, DC. Dr. Tanya Golash-Boza tracks the cycles of state abandonment and punishment that have shaped the city, revealing how policies and policing work to displace and decimate the Black middle class. Through the stories of those who have lost their homes and livelihoods, Golash-Boza explores how DC came to be the nation’s “Murder Capital” and incarceration capital, and why it’s now a haven for wealthy White people. This troubling history makes clear that the choice to use prisons and policing to solve problems faced by Black communities in the twentieth century—instead of investing in schools, community centers, social services, health care, and violence prevention—is what made gentrification possible in the twenty-first.

Guest: Tanya Golash-Boza is the Executive Director of the University of California Washington Center and a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Merced. She is the author of Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC’s Racial Wealth Gap. (https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520391178/before-gentrification#:~:text=In%20Before%20Gentrification%2C%20Tanya%20Maria,decimate%20the%20Black%20middle%20class.)   The post Disinvestment In Cities, Crime, and the Persistence of the Racial Wealth Gap (https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-september-7-2023/) appeared first on KPFA (https://kpfa.org) .

In this presentation, Dr. Tanya Golash-Boza explains how a century of redlining, disinvestment, and the War on Drugs wreaked devastation on Black people and paved the way for gentrification in Washington, DC. She describes the cycles of state abandonment and punishment that have shaped the city, revealing how policies and policing work to displace and decimate the Black middle class. She also explores how DC came to be the nation’s “Murder Capital” and incarceration capital, and why it’s now one of the most gentrified cities in the country. This troubling history makes clear that the choice to use prisons and policing to solve problems faced by Black communities in the twentieth century—instead of investing in schools, community centers, social services, healthcare, and violence prevention—is what made gentrification possible in the twenty-first. This talk unveils a pattern of anti-Blackness and racial capitalism in DC that has implications for all US cities. Tanya Golash-Boza is the founder of the Racism, Capitalism, and the Law Lab, a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Merced, and the Executive Director of the University of California Washington Center. She is a prolific scholar, with several published books and dozens of academic articles and book chapters. She has received several awards, including the Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award from the Latino/a Studies Section of the American Sociological Association for her book, Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor and Global Capitalism – published by New York University Press in 2015. Her textbook, Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach, published by Oxford University Press, is now in its third edition and is the leading textbook in this field. Her latest book, Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC’s Racial Wealth Gap will be released by the University of California Press in July 2023. Follow Dr. Golash-Boza on Twitter @tanyaboza or on YouTube @TanyaGolashBoza . You can also visit her project website, "Mapping Gentrification in Washington, D.C." at this address: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/009773cc5c224421a66d1ce9ff089849. For more information on the DC Preservation League, visit our website www.dcpreservation.org or follow us on social media @DCPresLeague. If you have a specific comment, question or concern please email info@dcpreservation.org.

Tanya Golash-Boza, professor of sociology at the University of California-Merced, gives a lecture at the College of the Holy Cross on "Before Gentrification: Race and Dis/Investment in the Nation's Capital." Through her research—Mapping Gentrification in Washington, DC—Professor Golash-Boza shows how home ownership for Black families in Washington DC has not led to intergenerational wealth, as it has for White families, but rather has caused dispossession. This is due to a number of factors including segregation and discriminatory housing policies, White flight, disinvestment in Black neighborhoods, and gentrification. Her talk, held September 27, 2021, was sponsored by the McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture at Holy Cross.

Tanya Golash-Boza is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Merced, the Founder of the Racism, Capitalism, and the Law Lab, and the author of several books. Her scholarship helps us understand how racism and capitalism structure our lives and what we need to do to change this country and the world. Tanya shares her experiences and takes a close look at racist housing policies in the mid-twentieth century to see how they can help us understand gentrification patterns today. Tanya Golash-Boza is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Merced, the Founder of the Racism, Capitalism, and the Law Lab, and the author of several books. Her scholarship helps us understand how racism and capitalism structure our lives and what we need to do to change this country and the world. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

Led by Prof. Tanya Golash-Boza, this webinar details a wide variety of human rights violations ensconced in U.S. immigration policy as well as lays out the steps we need to take to align U.S. immigration policy with international human rights standards. There are still two free sessions left in the Fall 2020 Genocide & Human Rights Webinar Series! November 24th: Oral History, Human Rights, and the Law: the importance of preserving testimony for justice Dec 1: The Yazidi Genocide - Children's Experience of a 21st Century Genocide Sign up now: https://zoryaninstitute.org/our-work/genocide-and-human-rights-webinar-series-fall-2020/