Japonica Brown-Saracino Book Release: The Death and Life of Gentrification

Come join us on February 11th, 6pm at Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS) for an meaningful night with Japonica Brown-Saracino and her new book, THE DEATH AND LIFE OF GENTRIFICATION: A New Map of a Persistent Idea, in which she traces how the term gentrification has far outgrown Glass's meaning, becoming a socially charged metaphor for cultural appropriation, upscaling, and the loss of authenticity.

Drawing on everything from film and television to novels and art, The Death and Life of Gentrification sheds critical light on the changing meaning of gentrification in contemporary life. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in gentrification and urban dynamics, as well as for readers curious about attitudes about growing income inequality and the evolution and circulation of ideas.

For this release event, Japonica Brown-Saracino will be in conversation with Brooklyn based writer and filmmaker Alexis Clements.

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Japonica Brown-Saracino is a regular commentator for major news organizations such as CNN, The New York Times, and The Atlantic and is the award-winning author of A Neighborhood that Never Changes: Gentrification, Social Preservation, and the Search for Authenticity and How Places Make Us: Novel LBQ Identities in Four Small Cities. She is professor of sociology and women’s, gender, and sexualities studies at Boston University, where she serves as faculty fellow at the Initiative on Cities.

Alexis Clements is a writer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn. Her creative work has been produced, published, and screened across the US, and in Europe, South America, and Asia. Her feature-length documentary film, , premiered at NewFest, has toured the globe, and has aired on select PBS stations around the US. She regularly publishes essays and reviews online, and is currently at work on two projects that mix prose and film.

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