Slow and Sudden Violence: Why and When Uprisings Occur

CGSP affiliate faculty member Prentiss Dantzler is director of the newly launched Housing Justice Lab.

On October 2, the Lab will be sponsoring a talk with Dr. Derek Hyra, Professor of Public Policy and Administration and Director of the Metropolitan Policy Center at American University, for his new book, Slow and Sudden Violence: Why and When Uprisings Occur.

In Slow and Sudden Violence, Derek Hyra links police violence to an ongoing cycle of racial and spatial urban redevelopment repression. By delving into the real estate histories of St. Louis and Baltimore, he shows how housing and community development policies advance neighborhood inequality by segregating, gentrifying, and displacing Black communities. To confront American unrest, Hyra urges that we end racialized policing, stop Black community destruction and displacement, and reduce neighborhood inequality.

When: October 2, 2024 at 4pm

Where: University of Toronto Department of Sociology, 700 University Ave, 17th floor, Suite 17020