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"""We Belong Here beautifully reclaims the story of Black Portland and offers new frameworks for identifying – and hopefully dismantling – the ways that White spaces are intolerant of and oppressive for Black people."" -- Mary Pattillo, author of 'Black Picket Fences, Second Edition: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class' ""We Belong Here is a fundamental correction to class-based interpretations of Black displacement. Shani Adia Evans develops a very useful conceptual sketch (e.g., “white spacemaking” and “white watching”) to classify the various practices Whites use to push Blacks out of their historical neighborhoods. Unlike other analysts, Evans also includes Blacks’ resistance to this process and documents their continuing efforts to make Black space even in white-dominated Portland. I will definitely assign this book in my classes."" -- Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, co-author of 'White Logic, White Methods: Racism and Methodology'"

""We Belong Here beautifully reclaims the story of Black Portland and offers new frameworks for identifying – and hopefully dismantling – the ways that White spaces are intolerant of and oppressive for Black people."" -- Mary Pattillo, author of 'Black Picket Fences, Second Edition: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class' ""We Belong Here is a fundamental correction to class-based interpretations of Black displacement. Shani Adia Evans develops a very useful conceptual sketch (e.g., “white spacemaking” and “white watching”) to classify the various practices Whites use to push Blacks out of their historical neighborhoods. Unlike other analysts, Evans also includes Blacks’ resistance to this process and documents their continuing efforts to make Black space even in white-dominated Portland. I will definitely assign this book in my classes."" -- Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, co-author of 'White Logic, White Methods: Racism and Methodology' ""We Belong Here is a riveting exploration of how Black space and Black spatial myths are made and mangled in one of our most progressive cities in the nation. Shani Evans writes like a home-grown magician, taking us both around and within how Black folks make lives and attempt to protect space in Portland, Oregon. As a Mississippian, I'm heartened by the work Evans does to really stretch conceptions of why the stability of place, and navigation of spatial instability matter in policy and myth-making."" -- Kiese Laymon, author of 'Heavy: An American Memoir' ""This work contributes helpful insights to the studies of neighborhood change and race relationsin contemporary American urban life. While grounded in modern sociological race theory, the book is also highly accessible to both scholarly and general readers."" * Choice *

"""We Belong Here beautifully reclaims the story of Black Portland and offers new frameworks for identifying – and hopefully dismantling – the ways that White spaces are intolerant of and oppressive for Black people."" -- Mary Pattillo, author of 'Black Picket Fences, Second Edition: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class'"

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Shani Adia Evans is assistant professor of sociology at Rice University.  

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