UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Michael Bader, associate professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University, will give the talk, “The negative space of neighborhood change: the dynamics of neighborhood integration and segregation in the past four decades,” at 4 p.m. on Monday, March 25 in 112 Walker Building on the University Park campus. The talk will also be available via Zoom.
“American metropolitan areas remain segregated by race, yet the factors that create the conditions that lead to segregation have changed,” Bader said. “I document and classify neighborhood change that has occurred over the past four decades and explain how a lack of moves into integrated neighborhoods — not their flight out of integrated neighborhoods — is a major factor that maintains segregation in the 21st century. In contrast to the avoidance that white residents show, people of color continue to move into predominantly white neighborhoods. I argue that the ‘negative space’ created by the lack of knowledge and lack of interest among white people in moving into integrated neighborhoods has implications for understanding racial inequality in health, educational and political outcomes.”
Michael Bader studies how cities and neighborhoods have evolved since the height of the Civil Rights Movement. He links long-term patterns of neighborhood racial change to the ways that race and class influence the housing search process. He also directs the 21st Century Cities Initiative, an interdisciplinary research initiative at Johns Hopkins University that transforms academic research and creates the basis for policies that enact measurable change for equitable development in Baltimore and urban regions throughout the world.
The talk is part of the EarthTalks spring 2024 series, “Urban Systems Science,” which is exploring complex urban systems including interactions between tightly connected human and natural systems both within city boundaries and between cities and the surrounding rural environment. For more information about the spring 2024 series, visit the EarthTalks website.