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| Tropical Housing Projects and the Constructions of Inequality in Puerto Rico |
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| Start Date: | 3/9/2016 | Start Time: | 4:00 PM |
| End Date: | 3/9/2016 | End Time: | 6:00 PM |
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Event Description:
Latin American and Latina/o Studies Department Presents...
Tropical Housing Projects and the Constructions of Inequality in Puerto Rico w/ guest speaker, Professor Dinzey-Flores, Rutgers University
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
4:00PM - 6:00PM
New Building , L.61 Conference Center
Puerto Rico has one of the highest income inequality rates in the nation. Sociologist Zaire Dinzey-Flores, is the author of Locked In, Locked Out: Gated Communities in a Puerto Rican City (U Penn Press, 2013), a ground breaking analysis of an urban housing project in Puerto Rico that shows how architecture and design reinforce a pervasive social inequality. Prof. Dinzey-Flores is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Rutgers University (New Brunswick).
For more information please contact: Professor John A. Gutierrez, jgutierrez@jjay.cuny.edu. |
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