We interview Dr. Shani Evans, author of We Belong Here: Gentrification, White Spacemaking, and a Black Sense of Place, published in 2025 by University of Chicago Press. In We Belong Here, 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.

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We Belong Here: Gentrification, White Spacemaking, and a Black Sense of Place, by Shani Evans. University of Chicago Press, 2025.

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Shani Evans, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Rice University

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