36 Du Bois Scholars Program Precarity in the Metropolis: Black Community-Based Educational Spaces Amid City Restructuring and Displacement

Authors:

Aaliyah Rapping, Bianca J. Baldridge

Date Created:

2025-01-01

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Community-based educational spaces (CBES) play a critical role do Black youth participating in CBES understand and respond insupportingandempoweringBlackyouth,addressingeducational to displacement?, and (2) How do Black youth articulate their disparities, fostering critical consciousness, and promoting holisticedsfromcommunity-basededucation/youthwork? TheSummer development (Baldridge, 2018). However, gentrification-driven Institute is a community-engaged study, informed by a critical race neighborhood change and school closures displace residents and spatial analysis across three cities, interviews with neighborhood weaken vital organizations, increasing community vulnerability activists, youth program leaders, and youth workers, as well as (Lipman 2011; Marwell, 2009). This study argues that systemic cognitive mapping with adolescents. Guided by the concept of forces — racism, capitalism, and anti-Blackness — shape freedom dreaming (Kelley, 2002), and through youth-centered gentrification, impacting CBES structure and youth engagement. activities, the SummerInstitutewill explorehowparticipantsmake The larger study engages activists, youth workers, and program sense of city change, specifically in New York City, Boston, leaders in sensemaking about displacement, neighborhood change, and East Oakland, and express their needs from CBES amid and impact on CBES. Previous studies have examined youth this change. This study contributes to a greater theorization of as passive recipients in their understanding of spatial change the complexity and nuance of community-based education and (Alicea, 2021). To center youth as active agents, a two-day informs local and national policy discussions to support youth SummerInstitutehasbeendesignedtogatherdatafromhighschool development. The Critical Youth Work Collective will host the youth to understand how they make sense of gentrification and Summer Institute in summer 2026. displacement and to answer the following questions: (1) How

Abstract:

Community-based educational spaces (CBES) play a critical role do Black youth participating in CBES understand and respond insupportingandempoweringBlackyouth,addressingeducational to displacement?, and (2) How do Black youth articulate their disparities, fostering critical consciousness, and promoting holisticedsfromcommunity-basededucation/youthwork? TheSummer development (Baldridge, 2018). However, gentrification-driven Institute is a community-engaged study, informed by a critical race neighborhood change and school closures displace residents and spatial analysis across three cities, interviews with neighborhood weaken vital organizations, increasing community vulnerability activists, youth program leaders, and youth workers, as well as (Lipman 2011; Marwell, 2009). This study argues that systemic cognitive mapping with adolescents. Guided by the concept of forces — racism, capitalism, and anti-Blackness — shape freedom dreaming (Kelley, 2002), and through youth-centered gentrification, impacting CBES structure and youth engagement. activities, the SummerInstitutewill explorehowparticipantsmake The larger study engages activists, youth workers, and program sense of city change, specifically in New York City, Boston, leaders in sensemaking about displacement, neighborhood change, and East Oakland, and express their needs from CBES amid and impact on CBES. Previous studies have examined youth this change. This study contributes to a greater theorization of as passive recipients in their understanding of spatial change the complexity and nuance of community-based education and (Alicea, 2021). To center youth as active agents, a two-day informs local and national policy discussions to support youth SummerInstitutehasbeendesignedtogatherdatafromhighschool development. The Critical Youth Work Collective will host the youth to understand how they make sense of gentrification and Summer Institute in summer 2026. displacement and to answer the following questions: (1) How

Source:

Harvard / North Carolina Central University | Astrophysics | 2027 / 2025

Topics:

youth, community, cbes, change, city, displacement, critical, program, black, educational, gentrification, neighborhood

Co-authors:

@aaliyahrapping177 , @biancajbaldridge178