Rats, Roaches, and Resistance: Housing Activism Films
@ University of Chicago's Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture
5733 S University Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Saturday, April 1st, from 5PM - 7PM
Note new date, time, and location!
Free admission!
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor in person!
Many human rights organizations contend that housing is a fundamental human right, but a safe and affordable place to live is not a given in our society. WHERE CAN I LIVE? A STORY OF GENTRIFICATION (Erik Lewis, 1984, 32 min., DVD) documents tactics used by tenants fighting gentrification in Park Slope, Brooklyn, in the early 1980s, while also putting on view the abusive practices of investor landlords. SOCIAL AND POLITICAL HOUSING SCRAPBOOK (10 min., courtesy of Media Burn Independent Video Archive), made in the early 1970s by Communications for Change, documents community activism in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood over substandard housing. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and author of “From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation,” will lead a discussion of the films and the historical and current issues they raise following the program.
Taylor’s research examines race and public policy including American housing policies. Dr. Taylor is currently working on a manuscript titled “Race for Profit: Black Housing and the Urban Crisis of the 1970s,” which looks at the federal government’s promotion of single-family homeownership in Black communities after the urban rebellions of the 1960s.
This event is co-presented by Northeastern Illinois University’s Inner-City Studies Major Club (ICSMC), which is based out of the Carruthers Center for Inner-City Studies (CCICS) seeking to connect Inner City Studies Education majors with other like-minded students as well as to outside community members and groups. We seek to “uplift” those that want to work towards relevant and essential “uplift.”
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Tags: Carruthers Center for Inner-City Studies, Center for the Study of Race Politics and Culture, Chicago, Communications for Change, Erik Lewis, Hyde Park, Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor, Media Burn Independent Video Archive, Northeastern Illinois University's Inner City Studies Major Club, Rats Roaches and Resistance Housing Activism Films, University of Chicago
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