Political Education on Resegregation
VIDEO: Mass Liberation AZ’s introduction to resegregation in the City of Phoenix
PODCAST: Writer and historian Jeff Chang discusses his book We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation
REPORT: The City of Phoenix released this report analyzing impediments to fair housing choice between 2015 to 2019, finding that the city continues to be heavily racially segregated.
BOOK: Published in 1996, Urban Planning and the African-American Community: In the Shadows is an important collection of articles examining the history and connections between anti-Black racism and the development of American cities through urban planning policies, zoning laws, and real estate. Edited by June Manning & Marsha Ritzdorf.
Political Education on Place
ARTICLE: Published in 2005, The Geography of Despair: Environmental Racism and the Making of South Phoenix is a critical study on the racially constructed geography of Phoenix. The authors term the historical process of segregating undesirable Black and brown communities into undesirable geographies far from white settlements in the Southwest as “sunbelt apartheid“.
REPORT: The Spatial Design Lab released this mapping project in 2008 as a visual examination of the geography of incarceration in the U.S. South Phoenix is included in this study, having one of the highest concentrations of “million dollar blocks” where the government spends in excess of a million dollars a year incarcerating the residents of a single city block.
TOOL: This map from our partners at Worried About Rent (WAR), pinpoints the major evictors in each Maricopa County justice court precinct. WAR has plotted the percentage of total evictions by precinct and included the court case history of each major evictor from 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic began.
PROGRAM: South Phoenix Healthy Start’s awareness campaign on Black maternal and infant mortality examines the dangerously death rates of Black mothers and babies in South Phoenix due to anti-Blackness in healthcare and environmental racism.
Resegregation Community
Dialogue Series
VIDEOS
POPI | Introducing Resegregation in the City & the People Over Property Initiative
8/27/20 | POPI Community Dialogue Series #2: As the City of Phoenix makes a 1.35 billion dollar investment in the South Central Light Rail Extension project, low income residents of this historically segregated part of town are worrying about the very real threat of displacement that looms over South Phoenix’s Black & brown communities. We identify the ways public infrastructure projects, such as public transport, have historically been driven by development practices that center white comfort and white safety.
10/29/20 | POPI Community Dialogue Series #3: As Black and brown communities in South Phoenix face an increased risk of eviction and homelessness, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the narrative around housing violence in this city has been pushed further away from those most directly impacted. We map the major players in the cycle of housing violence, from landlords, to city council, to constables. We must recenter the inherent anti-blackness of eviction and housing violence, and implicate those who benefit from the displacement of Black, Brown, Indigenous, and poor people in the city of Phoenix.
POPI | White Comfort & Safety as a Development Model: Joseph Larios of Mass Liberation AZ’s People Over Property Initiative (POPI) takes us through an abbreviated history of how the City of Phoenix was shaped through a development model that centered the safety and comfort of white people, while exploiting its Black and brown communities.
Resegregation Community Dialogue Series
VIDEOS
POPI | Introducing Resegregation in the City & the People Over Property Initiative
8/27/20 | POPI Community Dialogue Series #2: As the City of Phoenix makes a 1.35 billion dollar investment in the South Central Light Rail Extension project, low income residents of this historically segregated part of town are worrying about the very real threat of displacement that looms over South Phoenix’s Black & brown communities. We identify the ways public infrastructure projects, such as public transport, have historically been driven by development practices that center white comfort and white safety.
10/29/20 | POPI Community Dialogue Series #3: As Black and brown communities in South Phoenix face an increased risk of eviction and homelessness, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the narrative around housing violence in this city has been pushed further away from those most directly impacted. We map the major players in the cycle of housing violence, from landlords, to city council, to constables. We must recenter the inherent anti-blackness of eviction and housing violence, and implicate those who benefit from the displacement of Black, Brown, Indigenous, and poor people in the city of Phoenix.
POPI | White Comfort & Safety as a Development Model: Joseph Larios of Mass Liberation AZ’s People Over Property Initiative (POPI) takes us through an abbreviated history of how the City of Phoenix was shaped through a development model that centered the safety and comfort of white people, while exploiting its Black and brown communities.
Political Education on Resegregation
VIDEO: Mass Liberation AZ’s introduction to resegregation in the City of Phoenix
PODCAST: Writer and historian Jeff Chang discusses his book We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation
REPORT: The City of Phoenix released this report analyzing impediments to fair housing choice between 2015 to 2019, finding that the city continues to be heavily racially segregated.
ARTICLE: Dr. Cheryl L. Harris published her seminal work in the Harvard Law Review in 1993, examining how “whiteness, initially constructed as a form of racial identity, evolved into a form of property, historically and presently acknowledged and protected in American law”.
BOOK: Published in 1996, Urban Planning and the African-American Community: In the Shadows is an important collection of articles examining the history and connections between anti-Black racism and the development of American cities through urban planning policies, zoning laws, and real estate. Edited by June Manning & Marsha Ritzdorf.
Political Education
on Place
ARTICLE: Published in 2005, The Geography of Despair: Environmental Racism and the Making of South Phoenix is a critical study on the racially constructed geography of Phoenix. The authors term the historical process of segregating undesirable Black and brown communities into undesirable geographies far from white settlements in the Southwest as “sunbelt apartheid“.
REPORT: The Spatial Design Lab released this mapping project in 2008 as a visual examination of the geography of incarceration in the U.S. South Phoenix is included in this study, having one of the highest concentrations of “million dollar blocks” where the government spends in excess of a million dollars a year incarcerating the residents of a single city block.
TOOL: This map from our partners at Worried About Rent (WAR), pinpoints the major evictors in each Maricopa County justice court precinct. WAR has plotted the percentage of total evictions by precinct and included the court case history of each major evictor from 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic began.
PROGRAM: South Phoenix Healthy Start’s awareness campaign on Black maternal and infant mortality examines the dangerously high death rates of Black mothers and babies in South Phoenix as a result of anti-Blackness in healthcare and environmental racism.
