We should ask why it’s so easy for terms and concepts like “Heritage American” and “Western Chauvinism” are met with earnest analysis and exploration while academic theory produced by Black scholars are summarily dismissed by people reading introductory texts if that.

GIS mapping & analysis are super. They have helped advance knowledge & methods in urban studies (& other fields) in many ways over the last 40+ years or so. But I am afraid there are way too many folks who use these tools poorly or uncritically. I see many bad, misleading maps on a weekly basis. 1/2

Our latest CRI delves into the survey of community needs & concerns conducted by the Moss Park Coalition & explores the importance of community voices when private investments drive development in disadvantaged neighbourhoods (CC Prentiss Dantzler) https://ow.ly/nFoF50XGAir

Methods without theory is madness…

This is the least dismal my Bluesky timeline has been in 10 months so thank you baseball!

Affiliates & friends - can you help us spread the word? @docdantzler.bsky.social @joannapepin.bsky.social @leafiaye.bsky.social @melissamilkie.bsky.social @ed4socialchange.bsky.social @monjalexander.bsky.social @uoftsociology.bsky.social @uoftcities.bsky.social @sdgsatuoft.bsky.social @utoronto.ca

Housing Justice Lab's @docdantzler.bsky.social is part of a team of researchers who have examined the racial and economic makeup of those who get evicted from their homes in Toronto – and those who don’t. metropolitics.org/Vi...

Review of The Black Tax now in the AAG Review of Books The power to tax is intertwined with the origin of the US. Founding documents proclaimed that governments were instituted to secure life, liberty, and property. What happens when that promise goes wrong? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"In Toronto, who gets evicted isn’t random—it follows the city’s racial and economic divides. Canada’s data practices hide crucial details about who is most at risk." @docdantzler.bsky.social, Khalil Martin & Abigail Meza highlight connections btwn #housing policy, inequities, evictions & data

Happy to share this essay on the unevenness of evictions across the City of Toronto…check it out at @metropolitiques.bsky.social… @uoftsociology.bsky.social @uoftcities.bsky.social @uoftbrn.bsky.social @newhousingalt.bsky.social @cgsp-cpsm.bsky.social @sdcookcenter.bsky.social

I know I know it's a well worn point but still. Plenty of people who would self-describe as Christians, for whom that is a very important identity, watch Fox News. I genuinely can think of very few messages as laser-targeted to be anti-Christian as "kill the homeless". Designed in a lab by Satan.

“Reframing the story expands the possibilities of collective action.” - Willow S. Lung-Aman (The Right to Suburbia, 2024)

🏙️ Introduction to #UrbanStudies Special Issue "Authoritarian Neoliberal and Illiberal Urbanisms: Towards a Research Agenda" ✍️ Özatağan et al. 🔍 Authoritarian neoliberal urbanism reshapes cities to secure power amid local contradictions. 📖 buff.ly/i5d4zep

Let this year be a year of dreaming…dreaming of what’s next and what could be… Let’s us not wake up from a sleep without a story to tell others…

The U.S. is a young empire but arrogant. It basks in its riches while barely acknowledging people starving, living on the street, literally freezing today… We don’t have to live this way…

Many scholars often invoke the concept of a “slow death” to denote the many ways of everyday death dealing throws our way. But what would a “virtuous death” be? What would it mean to die admirably? I ask these questions not as a form of self harm but as an action of collective care…

I used to have imposter syndrome earlier on in my career but being anxious about time in and of itself - probably from the pandemic and the homegoing of friends and family - makes u question your actions today if tomorrow was never to come…

I think I finally have a decent book idea that allows me to do all the things I want to do. It’s an ambitious project but I’ve been fortunate to engage so many inspiring people over the last decade. Going forward, I’ll be lifting their voices up…providing space to others…

I learned how to be productive. I learned how to be an academic. And I tried and continue to try to do this the way I want to. I’m using this time to reconnect with family. In many ways, it’ll help me with my future work… I really want to explore Black liberation through the lens of housing.

Flexible from January to April. Open to ideas for relatively inexpensive places to visit. While I love what I do, I’ve given way too time to work. Tenure makes u wonder about times when u could have shared experiences with others, but instead u worked on that paper or went to that conference…

Well, since my landlord is raising the rent again, it looks like I’m about to be a “nomad” for the rest of my sabbatical this year once I finish up these last few projects by the end of November… Planning to just sit and think for a bit… Coming to a city near you? 🤔😏

The group of Afrikaners in the US call themselves "Amerikaners."

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “In other, less self-oriented cultures, and in other times, love was seen as something closer to self-abnegation than to self-comfort. It was seen as a force so powerful that it could overcome our natural selfishness,” our columnist David Brooks writes.

There aren't many stories that prompt gasps at our editors' daily budget meeting. But this was one.

Back on #BlueSky to spread the word about the chaos unfolding at University of Oregon. Admin laid off teaching profs this summer & now are telling us that TT & tenured profs will be laid off & numerous #humanities depts closed. Who will teach the largest ever incoming cohort of #ducks this fall?

🏆 Grad Students & Early Career Scholars: apply for the Emerging Scholar Award by 10/17/25 urbanaffairsassociation.org/awards/alma-...

The Bundling Assets lab, funded by CMHC & co-run w/ SHS Inc, looks at how nonmarket actors can collaborate to loan equity, develop sites & share management while maintaining org. autonomy. Join us for the launch of the 1st report, based on lessons from 3 practices us06web.zoom.us/webi...

Check out this great piece tracking tenant advocates' longstanding efforts to make the Province of Ontario expand access to air conditioning for renters. As heat waves grow hotter & more frequent, AC "is not a luxury, it's a necessity". thepointer.com/article/2025...

Erika McEntarfer, fired as BLS head by Trump …got her PhD in 2002 …has 47 publications …which have 1327 citations

@uoftcities.bsky.social @uoftsociology.bsky.social @uoftbrn.bsky.social @sdcookcenter.bsky.social @cgsp-cpsm.bsky.social @uaanews.bsky.social @cityandc

My new article with Ashley Nickels, Brooke Moeller, Emeline Renz, & Miles Davis-Matthews in @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social explores how nonprofit developers navigate narratives of gentrification in a changing mid-size city (Grand Rapids, MI). Check it out here… journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Read my new piece with @jasonhackworth.bsky.social in the #JournalofBlackStudies. We have some thoughts about this…and it’s open access!

"What does a narrative of support for racial capitalism look like in contemporary political economies, where racism denial is pervasive in political discourse, and trust in authorities are at an all-time low?" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Feel free to share widely… jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

@uoftsociology.bsky.social is hiring an Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity at its downtown campus. With a July 2026 start date, the application deadline is September 10, 2025. UofT is a great place to grow as a race scholar…

#Developing: Toronto air quality one of the worst in the world as alert issued for city, GTA

"What does a narrative of support for racial capitalism look like in contemporary political economies, where racism denial is pervasive in political discourse, and trust in authorities are at an all-time low?" Read @docdantzler.bsky.social's new open access piece journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

@uoftbrn.bsky.social @uoftsociology.bsky.social @uoftcities.bsky.social @dukesocialeq.bsky.social @newhousingalt.bsky.social @cgsp-cpsm.bsky.social

A good source to understand how discourse contributes to the production (and normalizing) of racial inequality…

Happy to finally see this one in print! In this article with @jasonhackworth.bsky.social in #JournalofBlaclStudies, we focus on the role of rhetoric in promoting the propaganda of conservative economics (timely!). Check it out… doi.org/10.1177/0021...

To think of an alternative future…to sit with questions of the unknown - something formerly thought of as impossible but now achievable. We can advocate, organize and fight back WHILE also thinking of something different…

It’s hard to focus these days with everything going on in the world. But we all need to make some time to sit and dream of something different. Its obvious life cannot go on like this any further as we see daily doses of tyranny. I’ve been leaning heavily into imagination as a political force…

Anxiously waiting for this new article coauthored with @jasonhackworth.bsky.social to come out in #JournalofBlackStudies. Curious about the response…

Why it’s time to read DEADLY FORCE @carceralhistory.bsky.social carceral-history.ghost.io/authors-pitc...

BREAKING: Authorities are searching for a 57-year-old man suspected of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers, AP sources say.

Idk man but when the administration that tried to reject humanitarian aid for Los Angeles when it was burning tries to justify their illegal military occupation by saying they aren’t going to let LA burn it kinda sounds like bullshit

New chapter by CGSP affiliate faculty @docdantzler.bsky.social & @dnpetti.bsky.social, along w/@mmaroto.bsky.social, is accessible overview of inequality in Canada, and how social policy can create winners and losers based on ppl's access to various forms of support cgsp-cpsm.ca/article/soci...