History/Urban Studies Talks in January at GWU

From Amber Wiley:

The American Studies and History Departments at George WashingtonUniversity are bringing an unusually rich and diverse set of urban history/urban studies scholars to campus during late January. We hope you'll join us for some of these talks and contribute to the discussion.

Mon. Jan. 23, 3:30-5:00:
Joseph Heathcott, Asst. Prof., St.Louis U.
"Haunting Absence: Pruitt-Igoe and the Fall of the Public City"

Demolition of Pruitt-Igoe public housing, St. Louis. Wide World Photo.

Wed. Jan. 25, 3:30-5:00:
Suleiman Osman, Ph.D. candidate, Harvard,
"Bohemians, Blacks, Blue-Collars, and Brownstones: How Gentrification in Brooklyn Challenges the History of Urban Decline, 1950-1980"

Stores on Flatbush Avenue (not Cobble Hill), Brooklyn.

Fri. Jan. 27, 3:00-4:30: Jason Sokol, Ph.D. candidate, Berkeley
"The Other Side of the Revolution: White Southerners and School Integration in New Orleans' Ninth Ward"

All will be held in Phillips 329.

Index Keywords: urban-revitalization