From Homeplace to White Space: Black Experiences with Racial Neighborhood Change

Monday, October 20, 2025

5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 

Olin Humanities, Room 102

Shani Adia Evans, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Rice University

For most of the twentieth century, Albina was the only majority Black area in Portland, Oregon. Between 1990 and 2010, Albina gentrified and became majority-white. This talk will look at how longtime Black Portland residents experienced and responded to the loss of Portland’s historically Black place.

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