SLOW AND SUDDEN VIOLENCE | A Busboys and Poets Books Presentation
Date and Time
Aug 22, 2024 6:30 pm
Location
450K
450 K St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20001
Aug 22, 2024 6:30 pm
450K
In SLOW AND SUDDEN VIOLENCE, Derek Hyra links police violence to an ongoing cycle of racial and spatial urban redevelopment repression. By delving into the real estate histories of St. Louis and Baltimore, he shows how housing and community development policies advance neighborhood inequality by segregating, gentrifying, and displacing Black communities.
Repeated decisions to “upgrade” the urban fabric and uproot low-income Black populations have resulted in pockets of poverty inhabited by people experiencing displacement trauma and police surveillance. These interconnected sets of divestments and accumulated frustrations have contributed to eruptions of violence in response to tragic, unjust police killings. To confront American unrest, Hyra urges that we end racialized policing, stop Black community destruction and displacement, and reduce neighborhood inequality.
Derek Hyra is joining us on the Busboys stage alongside Dr. Willow Lung-Amam to share more about the failures of urban policy and how they’ve evolved over time. Copies of the book will be available for purchase during and after the event, and Hyra will be signing following the program.
This event is free and open to all. Our program begins at 6:30 pm, and will be followed by an audience Q&A. Copies of SLOW AND SUDDEN VIOLENCE will be available for purchase before and after the event. Please note that this event is in person and will not be livestreamed.
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Derek Hyra is Professor of Public Administration and Policy and founding director of the Metropolitan Policy Center at American University. His research focuses on neighborhood change, with an emphasis on housing, urban politics, and race.
Willow Lung-Amam, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Maryland (UMD), College Park. At UMD, she serves as Director of Community Development at the National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education, Director of the Urban Equity Collaborative, and Director of the Small Business Anti-Displacement Network. Dr. Lung-Amam’s research focuses on suburban poverty, racial segregation, immigration, gentrification, redevelopment politics, and neighborhood opportunity. She is the author of The Right to Suburbia: Combating Gentrification on the Urban Edge and Trespassers? Asian American and the Battle for Suburbia. Her research has appeared in popular media outlets, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, National Public Radio, New Republic, Bloomberg’s CityLab, and Al Jazeera. Dr. Lung-Amam holds nonresident fellowships at the Urban Institute’s Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center and the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies program.
