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Amanda Boston is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Africana Studies at Brown University, where she studies twentieth-century African American history and politics, and the politics and culture of race in the post-civil rights era. She is writing a dissertation on the specific racial operations of gentrification in Brooklyn, New York, from 1970 to 2010.
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