Shani Adia Evans, Ph.D.
@shaniadiaevans.bsky.social
Sociologist. Author of We Belong Here: Gentrification, White Spacemaking, and a Black Sense of Place
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo238845176.html
www.shanievans.com
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo238845176.html
www.shanievans.com
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📖 New book review in Social Forces
"We Belong Here: Gentrification, White Spacemaking, and a Black Sense of Place"
by Shani Adia Evans
Reviewed by Zawadi Rucks-Ahidianai
➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf120
"We Belong Here: Gentrification, White Spacemaking, and a Black Sense of Place"
by Shani Adia Evans
Reviewed by Zawadi Rucks-Ahidianai
➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf120
July 7, 2026 at 5:00 PM
📖 New book review in Social Forces
"We Belong Here: Gentrification, White Spacemaking, and a Black Sense of Place"
by Shani Adia Evans
Reviewed by Zawadi Rucks-Ahidianai
➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf120
"We Belong Here: Gentrification, White Spacemaking, and a Black Sense of Place"
by Shani Adia Evans
Reviewed by Zawadi Rucks-Ahidianai
➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf120
My latest publication: “Collective Forgetting” in the News: Racialized Space, Media Framing, and White Racial Ignorance”
Open Access!
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Open Access!
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June 4, 2026 at 3:29 PM
My latest publication: “Collective Forgetting” in the News: Racialized Space, Media Framing, and White Racial Ignorance”
Open Access!
doi.org/10.1177/2332...
Open Access!
doi.org/10.1177/2332...
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🎧 NEW on UAR Remixed!! Our interview with @shaniadiaevans.bsky.social on their book, "We Belong Here: Gentrification, White Spacemaking, and a Black Sense of Place." Find us on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you listen to podcasts.
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New Books: We Belong Here: Gentrification, White Spacemaking and a Black Sense of Place — Urban Affairs Review
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 Ev...
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January 22, 2026 at 2:20 PM
🎧 NEW on UAR Remixed!! Our interview with @shaniadiaevans.bsky.social on their book, "We Belong Here: Gentrification, White Spacemaking, and a Black Sense of Place." Find us on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you listen to podcasts.
www.urbanaffairsreview.com/uar-archive/...
www.urbanaffairsreview.com/uar-archive/...
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Recent research, co-led by Black women researchers and conducted specifically with Black women residents, found that 80% of Black women in this neighborhood live in high-risk soil contamination zones, with 80% of those residents reporting chronic health conditions.
capitalbnews.org/houston-blac...
capitalbnews.org/houston-blac...
Black Women Fight for Life in Houston's Most Toxic — and Gentrifying — Neighborhood
In Settegast, where the average person dies before retirement age, Black women battle environmental racism and a record increase in cost of living.
capitalbnews.org
July 31, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Recent research, co-led by Black women researchers and conducted specifically with Black women residents, found that 80% of Black women in this neighborhood live in high-risk soil contamination zones, with 80% of those residents reporting chronic health conditions.
capitalbnews.org/houston-blac...
capitalbnews.org/houston-blac...
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"I drove all over Georgia investigating places where people used to swim that faded from the map after integration: pools filled, lakes drained, beaches sliced into private properties."
Hannah S. Palmer for @earthislandjournal.bsky.social: www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...
Hannah S. Palmer for @earthislandjournal.bsky.social: www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...
The American South’s Missing Pools and Lakes
In America, whether we can swim — and whether we have access to water at all — is closely tied to race.
www.earthisland.org
August 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
"I drove all over Georgia investigating places where people used to swim that faded from the map after integration: pools filled, lakes drained, beaches sliced into private properties."
Hannah S. Palmer for @earthislandjournal.bsky.social: www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...
Hannah S. Palmer for @earthislandjournal.bsky.social: www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...
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I loved this new book by Shani Evans at Rice. It's an important theoretical contribution to our understanding of space and race within a detailed ethnographic account of change in a (formerly) Black neighborhood in Portland, OR. #socsky #academicsky @ricesocsci.bsky.social
April 15, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I loved this new book by Shani Evans at Rice. It's an important theoretical contribution to our understanding of space and race within a detailed ethnographic account of change in a (formerly) Black neighborhood in Portland, OR. #socsky #academicsky @ricesocsci.bsky.social
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Suggested summer reading! In her new book, ASA member Shani Adia Evans @shaniadiaevans.bsky.social @ricesocsci.bsky.social looks at how Black Portlanders in one Oregon neighborhood navigate gentrification & White spacemaking. @uchicagopress.bsky.social bit.ly/4lSbgvV
We Belong Here
A landmark study that shows how Black residents experience and respond to the rapid transformation of historically Black places. Although Portland, Oregon, is sometimes called “America’s Whitest ci...
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June 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Suggested summer reading! In her new book, ASA member Shani Adia Evans @shaniadiaevans.bsky.social @ricesocsci.bsky.social looks at how Black Portlanders in one Oregon neighborhood navigate gentrification & White spacemaking. @uchicagopress.bsky.social bit.ly/4lSbgvV
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Moment of Joy 😄 "That's my photo right there!" @bikejc.org Ward Tour. ~We Outside~ Oonee Pod, Public Art.
June 1, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Moment of Joy 😄 "That's my photo right there!" @bikejc.org Ward Tour. ~We Outside~ Oonee Pod, Public Art.
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We Belong Here, the new book by Rice’s Shani Adia Evans, explores how Black Portlanders navigate gentrification and White spacemaking. Out now from Chicago Press. #RiceSocSchi #ShapingTheFuture
May 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
We Belong Here, the new book by Rice’s Shani Adia Evans, explores how Black Portlanders navigate gentrification and White spacemaking. Out now from Chicago Press. #RiceSocSchi #ShapingTheFuture
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Join #ASACulture for the #Culture & #ContemporaryLife #TalkSeries from Noon to 1:00 pm ET on May 23, 2025. Learn how to become a #publicsociologist! Learn how to produce a #podcast, ✍️ an #opED, and end up on a #documentary (or how to produce your own)!
May 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Join #ASACulture for the #Culture & #ContemporaryLife #TalkSeries from Noon to 1:00 pm ET on May 23, 2025. Learn how to become a #publicsociologist! Learn how to produce a #podcast, ✍️ an #opED, and end up on a #documentary (or how to produce your own)!
This Wednesday at Kindred Stories, the best bookstore in Houston
May 11, 2025 at 11:14 PM
This Wednesday at Kindred Stories, the best bookstore in Houston
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Starting by sharing that Brittany Murray
and I are proud to share our newest paper “Missing the Forest for the Trees: Toward a Networked Racial Analysis of White Parents in Education Policy and Research” at Educational Researcher
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
1/4
and I are proud to share our newest paper “Missing the Forest for the Trees: Toward a Networked Racial Analysis of White Parents in Education Policy and Research” at Educational Researcher
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
1/4
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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January 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Starting by sharing that Brittany Murray
and I are proud to share our newest paper “Missing the Forest for the Trees: Toward a Networked Racial Analysis of White Parents in Education Policy and Research” at Educational Researcher
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
1/4
and I are proud to share our newest paper “Missing the Forest for the Trees: Toward a Networked Racial Analysis of White Parents in Education Policy and Research” at Educational Researcher
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
1/4
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Why Quincy Jones should be prominently featured in US music education − his absence reflects how racial segregation still shapes American classrooms theconversation.com/why-quincy-j...
Why Quincy Jones should be prominently featured in US music education − his absence reflects how racial segregation still shapes American classrooms
Composer Quincy Jones, who died in November 2024, was a titan of 20th-century American music. So why don’t music majors study his work?
theconversation.com
December 14, 2024 at 11:30 PM
Why Quincy Jones should be prominently featured in US music education − his absence reflects how racial segregation still shapes American classrooms theconversation.com/why-quincy-j...
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🚨 New on the blog! Corey M. Abramson (Rice U. Sociology) reflects on AI as part of the sociologist's evolving toolkit in "From Carbon Paper to Code: Crafting Sociology in an Age of AI"
contexts.org/blog/soc-ai/
#sociology #publicsociology #inequality #Mills
contexts.org/blog/soc-ai/
#sociology #publicsociology #inequality #Mills
December 10, 2024 at 2:26 PM
🚨 New on the blog! Corey M. Abramson (Rice U. Sociology) reflects on AI as part of the sociologist's evolving toolkit in "From Carbon Paper to Code: Crafting Sociology in an Age of AI"
contexts.org/blog/soc-ai/
#sociology #publicsociology #inequality #Mills
contexts.org/blog/soc-ai/
#sociology #publicsociology #inequality #Mills
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I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...
projects.propublica.org
March 22, 2024 at 1:25 PM
I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
Sad to learn that Toumani Diabate died at just 58 in July. His music has been my work soundtrack for more than 20 years.
Toumani Diabaté & Sidiki Diabaté - Jarabi
YouTube video by NOISE CHAMBER
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December 7, 2024 at 3:00 AM
Sad to learn that Toumani Diabate died at just 58 in July. His music has been my work soundtrack for more than 20 years.
This what I argue in my book We Belong Here - we need to think about racial change and class change in urban neighborhoods as intersecting processes. Race and class are too often conflated in gentrification research.
Displacement is jointly an issue of race *and* class. Arguments and theories that reduce the folks displaced from gentrifying neighborhoods to either non-White people or poor people are reductionist, at least in the U.S. context.
December 2, 2024 at 7:45 PM
This what I argue in my book We Belong Here - we need to think about racial change and class change in urban neighborhoods as intersecting processes. Race and class are too often conflated in gentrification research.
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What happens to White people displaced from gentrified neighborhoods? My newly published article shows they are demographically similar to non-White displacees but end up in better-off neighborhoods. academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...
Race, Class, and the Displacement of White Residents from Gentrifying U.S. Neighborhoods
Abstract. Are the adverse consequences of gentrification distributed more along racial or class lines? To answer this question, scholars must consider when
academic.oup.com
December 2, 2024 at 7:27 PM
What happens to White people displaced from gentrified neighborhoods? My newly published article shows they are demographically similar to non-White displacees but end up in better-off neighborhoods. academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...
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Come work with us at the Reproductive Equity Action Lab! We’re taking applications for a postdoctoral research scholar for the 2025-26 school year, with the option to renew up two years in total (extended deadline January 3) 1/
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November 29, 2024 at 5:55 PM
Come work with us at the Reproductive Equity Action Lab! We’re taking applications for a postdoctoral research scholar for the 2025-26 school year, with the option to renew up two years in total (extended deadline January 3) 1/
real.smph.wisc.edu/get-involved/
real.smph.wisc.edu/get-involved/
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2024 is the centennial of James Baldwin's birth! Throughout the year, there are celebrations of every sort. Among them: the reminder that JB Review’s 10th anniversary lands in this momentous year!
I’m also aiming to get to the Schomburg’s Baldwin exhibition before it closes Feb 28th.
I’m also aiming to get to the Schomburg’s Baldwin exhibition before it closes Feb 28th.
November 26, 2024 at 12:45 PM
2024 is the centennial of James Baldwin's birth! Throughout the year, there are celebrations of every sort. Among them: the reminder that JB Review’s 10th anniversary lands in this momentous year!
I’m also aiming to get to the Schomburg’s Baldwin exhibition before it closes Feb 28th.
I’m also aiming to get to the Schomburg’s Baldwin exhibition before it closes Feb 28th.