Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City with Brandi Thompson Summers

Join for a conversation with Brandi Thompson Summers, professor of Geography and Global Metropolitan Studies at U.C.-Berkeley and author of "Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City" in conversation with Samir Meghelli, senior curator at the Anacostia Community Museum. Summers will discuss her book and the political and economic dynamics by which race and space are re-imagined and reordered, including along the H Street NE Corridor here in Washington, DC. This event is part of an ongoing "A Right to the City" Author Talk series with American University’s Metropolitan Policy Center and the DC Public Library.