The Dream Revisited: Explaining Ferguson Through Race and Place
Launched on Martin Luther King Jr. Day earlier this year, The Dream Revisited is a slow debate on the causes and consequences of racial and economic segregation in neighborhoods and schools. It is presented as part of the NYU Furman Center’s year-long Integration Research Initiative.
The eleventh discussion in The Dream Revisited explores how metropolitan development patterns shaped by race and class set the stage for the events in Ferguson, MO. Essays in this discussion include:
- “The Ferguson Moment: Race and Place” by John Mollenkopf, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center and Director of its Center for Urban Research, and Todd Swanstrom, Des Lee Endowed Professor of Community Collaboration and Public Policy Administration at the University of Missouri-St.Louis.
- "Race, Justice, and the Matters of Black Lives" by Christopher M. Tinson, Assistant Professor of African American studies at Hampshire College.
- “What Does Obama’s Election Tell Us About ‘The Ferguson Moment’?“ by Jennifer Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.
- “Five Concrete Steps Towards a St. Louis Comeback” by Jeff Smith, Assistant Professor of Politics and Advocacy at the New School for Public Engagement and former Missouri state senator from St. Louis.
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The Dream Revisited is presented as part of the NYU Furman Center's Integration Research Initiative and supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Foundations. If you have any comments or suggestions for future discussions, send us an email to fccommunications@nyu.com.
