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SPEAKER:	Mary Pattillo Associate Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Research Fellow Institute for Policy Research Northwestern University
TITLE:	Black Gentrification: Lessons on Race and Class
DATE:	Friday, October 25, 2002
TIME:	12:00 Noon
PLACE:	2309 Art-Sociology University of Maryland, College Park Campus
Mary Pattillo received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and is currently Associate Professor of Sociology and African American Studies and Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. Her areas of interest include race and ethnicity (with an emphasis on class stratification), urban sociology, and qualitative methods. Her book, Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class (University of Chicago Press 1999) won the Oliver Cromwell Cox Best Book Award from the American Sociological Association. Current projects include a three-year ethnography examining the simultaneous processes of low-income housing construction and gentrification in a black Chicago neighborhood; a comparative study of the transformation of public housing in Chicago; an analysis of racial differences in the class composition of extended families; and a study of educational outcomes among black and white middle class youth. Pattillo is also co-editing a volume on the effects of mass incarceration on families and communities

Please join us for this brown bag event. For the series schedule, please refer to http://www.popcenter.umd.edu/events/fall2002.shtml