Language, Race, and Ethnicity Lecture Series – Spring 2021

Dr. Jessi Grieser University of Tennessee, Knoxville

In a virtual lecture

• Topic: “I’ve never known a white person to live on Hill Street:” Racializing Gentrification through Framing and Erasure
• Date: February 3, 2021
• Time: 3:00pm – 4:15pm MST
  

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This talk discusses a project in Anacostia, Washington, D.C.,
tracing frames of how Black residents of the neighborhood
evaluate white presence in the neighborhood. The talk
illustrates how these frames help reproduce discourses which
see gentrification as a purely racial rather than economic
issue, and allows the community members to position the
neighborhood’s Black residents as a single cohesive
community staking a firm claim on Black urban space.

The lecture is sponsored by the Idaho Humanities Council, the Boise State
Department of English, the Mary Ellen Ryder Linguistics Lab, and the
Boise State Gender Studies Program. A question and answer period with the students from this semester’s LING 497 will follow the lecture.

Program Support

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Idaho Humanities
Council, a State-based partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this series do not necessarily represent those of the Idaho Humanities Council or the National Endowment for the Humanities.