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Endurance: A Novel | Gentrification and Its Effects in Washington Heights

ARC Seminar: Emily Raboteau | Endurance: A Novel | Gentrification and its Effects in Washington Heights

Borrowing its title from this summer’s probing popular NPR series, “There Goes the Neighborhood,” my seminar presentation will illuminate the human, socioeconomic, political, and cultural effects of the process of gentrification. While that podcast focused on areas in Brooklyn, my multi-media presentation will focus on income inequality in the neighborhood of Washington Heights, where my novel, Endurance, is set. I will present photography slides to convey how the neighborhood, with its store closures, real estate development, and shifting demographics, is swiftly changing. I will also read briefly from my novel, which explores the lived experiences and relationships of characters in the neighborhood as they struggle to retain their homes. My talk will center on the central questions of the novel itself (as articulated in my proposal) without being doctrinaire about the answers.











When: Thu., Nov. 30, 2017 at 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave.
212-817-7000
Price: Free
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ARC Seminar: Emily Raboteau | Endurance: A Novel | Gentrification and its Effects in Washington Heights

Borrowing its title from this summer’s probing popular NPR series, “There Goes the Neighborhood,” my seminar presentation will illuminate the human, socioeconomic, political, and cultural effects of the process of gentrification. While that podcast focused on areas in Brooklyn, my multi-media presentation will focus on income inequality in the neighborhood of Washington Heights, where my novel, Endurance, is set. I will present photography slides to convey how the neighborhood, with its store closures, real estate development, and shifting demographics, is swiftly changing. I will also read briefly from my novel, which explores the lived experiences and relationships of characters in the neighborhood as they struggle to retain their homes. My talk will center on the central questions of the novel itself (as articulated in my proposal) without being doctrinaire about the answers.

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