Annual Report for the Community and Urban Section

For membership year 2016-2017 Prepared by Deirdre Oakley, Past Chair of the Section. October 2017

Introduction

Dear Section Past Chair;

Section Annual Reports are an important tool for building your section’s institutional memory and history. In addition, they are one of the most valuable tools that the Association has to assess the vitality of your section. These reports are read and discussed by the Committee on Sections at its Fall/Winter meeting. Afterwards they are retained in the ASA’s Sections archive and will be available upon request for future section members and officers.

Annual Reports should cover your section’s activities during your term as chair, or approximately from the end of the previous year’s Annual Meeting to the end of this year’s.

Please send your completed report to the Executive Office by October 15th of this year. We prefer your reports are sent in electronic format rather than in print. Any printed materials sent to us will be converted into an electronic format.

Please feel free to contact me should you have any questions, comments or concerns. I am here to assist you. Thank you for your hard work and creativity over these last several years, and congratulations for the successful completion of your term as Chair of your Section.

Sincerely, Mark Fernando Director, Governance and Administration American Sociological Association, 1430 K Street NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20005 [email protected] | 202-247-9866

Section Governance

This first section of the report details your section’s governance activity during the last year. Business Meeting

This portion of the report should include an agenda, a count or list of members present and a copy of the meeting’s minutes. If no minutes are available, please provide a summary of decisions made at this meeting.

CUSS BUSINESS MEETING Monday, August 14, 11:30pm Palais des congrès de Montréal, Level 5, 517B.

AGENDA

1. Welcome and Introduction of New CUSS Officers (Deirdre Oakley, Chair) 2. Financial Report (Jacob Rugh, Secretary/Treasurer) 3. City and Community, Editors’ Report (Lance Freeman) 4. Awards Ceremony (Deirdre Oakley and Awards Committee Members) 5. New Business 6. Adjournment

Summary of Meeting. The CUSS Business Meeting is held following the CUSS Roundtable Session. Chair Oakley commenced meeting at 11:30am and welcomed existing and new CUSS Council members. She introduced new section officers and thanked CUSS paper session organizers. She thanks Jacob Lederman and Victoria Reyes for organizing the roundtables and thanked Mike Bader (chair of the nominations committee) for handling all the logistical tasks of contacting people and making the elections successful. CUSS Secretary-Treasurer Jacob Rugh then gave an update on section finances. Lance Freeman presented the editors’ report for the journal City and Community. One item worth noting is that the Impact Factor of the journal has fallen from 1.071 to .541 over the last year. Editor Freeman concluded that this has to do with the popular Institutions Section which solicites brief essay articles about pressing urban issues. While this section is well-read, the essays do not receive many citations.

Chair Oakley briefly discussed the search for an editor(s) to succeed Dr. Freeman. After that Chair Oakley thanked the CUSS award committees and commenced the awards ceremony. Chair Oakley gave a brief overview of membership numbers indicating that we have remained steady at 583, which is where we were last year at the time of the ASA meeting. She reported that we only needed 17 more members to reach the 600 level, which would allow us an additional paper session in 2018. The meeting adjourned at 12pm. Approximately 80 people attended the CUSS Business Meeting. It should be noted that through the efforts of CUSS Membership Committee Chair, Victoria Reyes and the members of the membership committee, we reached 600 by the September 30, 2017 deadline. ______

Section Council Meeting

In this portion of the report, please discuss your section’s deliberations at its Council Meeting. This portion of the report should include an agenda, a count or list of members present and a copy of the meeting’s minutes. If no minutes are available, please provide a summary of decisions made by the Section Council. Please include information on all other Council Meetings conducted during the previous year.

CUSS COUNCIL MEETING Sunday, August 14. 9 to 10:15am Westin Hotel

AGENDA

1. Call to Order 2. Introduction of new Council members and Officers (Deirdre Oakley) 3. Secretary-Treasurer Report (Jacob Rugh) 4. Chair Report (Deirdre Oakley) 5. Membership Committee Report (Kevin Gotham) 6. C&C Editor Report (Lance Freeman) 7. New Business 8. Adjourn

Summary of Meeting. Chair Oakley called the meeting to order at 9am and welcomed new and existing Council Members. After everyone introduced themselves, she thanked Mike Bader (chair of the nominations committee) for handling all the logistical tasks of contacting people for nominations. CUSS Secretary-Treasurer Report Jacob Rugh presented a report on the section finances. Chair Oakley reported that the management of the Comurb_r21 listserve had successfully been transferred from Judith Friedman at Rutgers to her at Georgia State University. ([email protected]). Chair Oakley also led a Council discussion on updates concerning the recruitment of a new Editor for City and Community as Lance’s term is coming to an end. City and Community editor, Lance Freeman, then gave a report on management, operations, and finances of the journal. ______State of the Section Budget

Did your section operate within its budget for this year? Please include a copy of last year’s projected budget and compare it with actual expenses.

Secretary / Treasurer Report Community & Urban Sociology Section / American Sociological Association August 14, 2017 Dr. Jacob Rugh

(1) Section finances remain stable and strong. As of May 31, 2017, the section had $28,130 in its ASA account, an increase of $2,640 from the same time in 2016, when the section balance was $25,490. This money is used for our annual reception, reimbursements for various section expenses such as the award plaques, as well as new initiatives such as our mentoring coffee breaks this year at ASA in Montreal, and to build a reserve that might be used to address various expenses related to City and Community. Our income derives from dues ($542 collected so far this year) and our section’s annual budget allocation from ASA ($2,168).

The journal, which you may recall has a budget that is tracked separately from the overall section budget, has $31,650 in its ASA account as of May 31, 2017. On June 30, 2016, the journal had $27,259. We received a $22,000 infusion of cash from Blackwell for 2017, who publishes the journal. Additionally, the journal account accrued $484 in publication income this year (bringing the total journal income to $22,484). We have spent $7,140 for editorial office expenses at Columbia through May 31, 2017 and plan to spend approximately $20,000 in 2017. Any remaining funds will be coupled with assets and carried over to 2018.

(2) Membership. On June 5, 2017 we had 550 members, 22 more members than we had at the same time in 2016. It is very likely that we have more members as of August given the seasonal increase in membership that precedes each annual ASA meeting. While section memberships are down substantially across ASA sections, there are strong reasons to strive to maintain if not increase our section enrollment. First, section membership counts determine the number of sessions we are allocated by the ASA. Specifically, if we continue to have fewer than 600 members as of September 30, 2017, instead of 4 sessions, we will again have 3 regular sessions allotted to our section at the 2018 ASA annual meeting in Philadelphia. Second, section numbers also of course have direct implications for our financial outlook, particularly because our contract with Wiley-Blackwell, who publishes City & Community for the section, mandates that we maintain a section membership of at least 550. If our membership falls below that mark, our section dues may increase to cover the missing journal revenue. Obviously, this is something we want to avoid. Most importantly, we wish to include as many sociologists as possible in our section. Sincerely, Jacob Rugh

An operating budget for the coming year approved by the Section Council.

Below is the approved operating 2017-2018 budget prepared by incoming Secretary/Treasurer Dr. Mary Fischer.

Community/Urban Section Budget for 2017-2018 Note: All green shaded areas are self-calculating. This budget template only covers activity for your section's primary account. Any restricted accounts and endowments must be monitored and reported on separately. Please use the Notes field to provide information on miscellaneous or other expenditures. For more information please contact the Section Coordinator, Mark Fernando ([email protected]) Expenditures Annual Meeting Amount Code Notes Reception $1,900.00 37300 (estimate) Other Meeting Expenses $300.00 37310 Council breakfast (estimate) Misc 37320 Total $2,200.00 n/a Awards Amount Code Notes Student Awards 37360 Award Plaques $300.00 37360 (estimate) Misc (Mentoring Program) $200 37360 plaque shipment costs Other $50.00 37360 (estimate) Total $550.00 n/a Communications Amount Code Notes (No longer needed since ASA Website 37330 hosts CUSS site) Misc 37370 Other 37370 Total $0.00 n/a Miscellaneous Amount Code Notes Gift Memberships may not be funded from allocated funds. Membership 37370 Funds must be raised for this purpose. Misc 37370 City & Community Editor's Other 37370 travel Total $0.00 n/a Summary Amount Notes Total Expenditures $2,550.00 Current Year's Income $4,975.00 Previous Balance $24,198.00 End of Year $26,623.00 Income Source Amount Calculated

Section Allocation $2,200.00 (Members*2)+A 600 (as of 10/5/17) Description "A" is determined by the overall membership size: Sections with fewer than 200 members receive a base allocation of $500. Sections with less than 300 members but more than 200 members receive a base allocation of: (# of section members minus 100) multiplied by $5. Sections with more than 300 members receive a base allocation of $1,000. In addition the section receives two dollars from dues of each member. To calculate this amount, enter your section's membership in the red box above. Use end of year membership numbers for the previous year. This membership report is issued during the first week of October. Levied Dues $2,775.00 Special Description Any dues raised by the sections in excess of the base rate go directly to the section's coffers. The base rate is $10 for regular members, $5 for students and

$10 for associate (low income) members. Subscription Fees for Section Journals are not added here. [I calculated this at $1 for students, $6 for all others as per Mark Fernando's email of 10.9.17, mjf] Contributions n/a

Description These are funds raised from members.

n/a Royalties Description Royalties donated by members or generated through other activites.

n/a Outside Contributions Description Funds donated from individuals/entities outside the section.

n/a Miscellaneous Income Description Anything not captured above. Please replace this text with a description.

(ESTIMATE) Carry Over Balance $24,000.00 Description Balance from previous years.

n/a Total $28,975.00

______The Previous Year

This section discusses your section’s activities during your term as Section Chair.

Overview

CUSS Council Members and officers received feedback from many members that sessions at the 2016 meeting were well attended, as was the roundtables. We received no complaints. We did receive a suggestion to introduce a mentorship program for the 2017 to connect graduate students and junior faculty to senior faculty they would like to meet with during the meeting. Because of scheduling among the CUSS awardees, we conducted the awards ceremony at the Business meeting. However, one awardee, as well one award committee member did not show up – both of whom had said they would be at the Business Meeting. On a happy note our reception was held at Les Soeurs Grises, 32 Rue McGill, on August 14 at 6:30pm. The reception venue was about a 15 minute walk from the conference site and was packed out. We offered drink tickets and Hors d'oeuvres. The venue and servers where wonderful and members enjoyed the reception. A special thanks to Richard Ocejo for finding this wonderful venue and making the arrangements.

1. New Mentorship Program A highlight for our section during the 2017 meeting was the launch of our new mentoring initiative headed up by Jonathan Wynn (UMass, Amherst) with the help of Chase Billingham (Wichita State) and Prentiss Dantzler (Colorado College). With guidance from several other sections, the purpose of this initiative was to match up graduate students, post docs and junior faculty with more senior scholars in specific areas of expertise across all corners of our field. A call went out in December, 2016 and we ended up with 98 volunteers. Folks were matched up into 28 teams (14 teams of three and 14 teams of four by substantive interests). Leaders received reimbursements for coffee money and we had many dynamic conversations about research, publishing and career advisement. This turned out to be a popular informal addition to the CUSS annual conference program and we will implement it again next year. I have agreed to coordinate this effort. Lastly we continued to abide by the revised Section By-Laws concerning membership and leadership participation. 2. Awards Ceremony We gave out the following awards. I have annotated those who committed to show up but did not with a *. The committee member who did not show up had committed to presenting the award. The Robert and Helen Lynd Career - Lifetime Achievement Award Robert Sampson,

Committee: Bruce Haynes, University of California Davis (Chair); Eric Klinenberg, New York University Leland Saito, University of Southern California, Dornsife Karyn Lacy, University of Michigan

The Robert E. Park Award for Best Book Forrest Stuart, Department of Sociology, University of ; Down, Out and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row. Press, 2016.

Committee: Leonard Nevarez, Vassar College (Chair); Richard Lloyd, Vanderbilt University Prentiss Dantzler, Colorado College

The Jane Addams Award for Best Article *Grigoryeva, Angelina, Princeton University and Martin Ruef, Duke University; "The historical demography of racial segregation." American Sociological Review 80.4 (2015): 814-842.

Committee: Japonica Brown-Saracino, Boston University and Jim Elliot, Rice University (Co-Chairs} Marcus Hunter, University of California, Los Angeles Debbie Becher, Barnard

CUSS Student Paper Award Winner: Brian Levy, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, "Wealth, Race, and Place: How Neighborhood Disadvantage from Adolescence to Middle Adulthood Affects Wealth Inequality and the Racial Wealth Gap at Age 50."

Honorable mention: Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, Rice University, ""Racial Discrimination in the Everyday Operation of Urban Housing Markets."

Committee: *Jeremy Levine, University of Michigan (Chair) Jennifer Darrah, University of Hawaii Kendra Bischoff, Cornell University

3. CUSS Sessions in Montreal

We had dynamic papers sessions and a very crowded roundtable session. Below I list all the paper sessions.  Questioning the City: New Directions in Urban Theory Co-Organizers: Hillary Angelo, Dept. of Sociology, University of California–Santa Cruz [email protected] Miriam Greenberg, Dept. of Sociology, University of California–Santa Cruz [email protected] Leonard Nevarez, Dept. of Sociology, Vassar College [email protected]

Sociologists have long taken the forms, processes, and scales of urbanism associated with 19th and early 20th century industrial cities as foundational for urban scholarship and thought. In recent decades, these inherited frameworks have struggled to account for emerging modes of urban restructuring —for instance, the growth of “megaregions” and “megacities” in the global North and South; political and demographic responses to climate change; and exurban/trans-urban patterns of place/landscape consumption, economic/infrastructural development, and political subjectivities. This panel invites new research on topics that illustrate these challenges to traditional categories and modes of urban inquiry; and that can be put in conversation in theoretically productive ways. We invite papers on a range of contemporary concerns, including: climate change, refuse crises, macro-to-global issues facing cities, new mode in the consumption of landscape and nature, ‘oases’ of urban culture and contradictions of ‘urban renaissance’, as well as other relevant issues.

 Revisiting the Power, Space and Exclusion of Global Cities in the 21st Century Co-Organizers: Jean Beaman, Purdue University: [email protected] Anthony Orum, University of Illinois at Chicago: [email protected]

This session will focus on the ways that power and space are inextricably linked together in metropolitan areas and how such dynamics affect the experiences and perspectives of marginalized groups and individuals. From the exclusion of migrants in urban China to the social exclusion of Muslims in Berlin and France to the racial segregation across countless urban areas in the Europe and , space, power and social exclusion seem to be universal truths of cities today. How are these global urban realities shaping and reshaping boundaries of inclusion and exclusion and how we understand the everyday experience of social exclusion? Are there underlying factors influencing the current spatial power regimes undergirding cities around the world? What kinds of theories can we bring to bear on these universal facts? And more importantly how can we seek remedies in ways that bring diverse peoples together rather than divide them in 21st century metropolitan areas? This session invites papers covering experiences, potential causal mechanisms, case studies as well as suggested remedies to the seemingly intractable character of social exclusion across the world today.

 Capitalizing on Culture: Creative Cities and Inequality -- Promises Made and Promises Broken Co-Organizers, Rachael A. Woldoff, West Virginia University: [email protected] Greggor Mattson, Oberlin College: gmattson.oberlin.edu

This session interrogates the invocation of culture as a catalyst for urban redevelopment, especially in appeals to the creative class, creative industries, or the creative arts. Richard Florida’s (2002; 2005) work on the “creative class” has identified city attributes that draw creative professionals, concluding that certain kinds of amenities benefit cities competing to lure a high-value workforce and encouraging innovation. However, many have lamented the transformation of urban spaces caused, in part, by creative class policies, including gentrification, lack of affordable housing, and the neoliberal nature of this approach to urban development. Papers in this session will to promote debate around the intended and unintended consequences of the creative class approach to the city, including the dynamics, meanings, significance of the creative class for everyday life in modern urban areas. We welcome empirically and theoretically focused papers, and especially encourage papers that raise new questions.

 Roundtable Organizers: Jacob Lederman, University of Michigan, Flint [email protected] Victoria Reyes, National Center for Institutional Diversity, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, [email protected].

Table 01. Art and The Creative City How do Cultural Organizations in Semi-Peripheral Positions Pursue Legitimacy? Alexander Hoppe, University of Pennsylvania Making Jerusalem 'Cooler': Creative Script, Youth Flight, Diversity. Noga Keidar, University of Toronto Neighborhood Diversity and the Rise of Artist Hotspots: From Creative Class to Neighborhood Change. Corina Graif, The Pennsylvania State University Where is the Creative City? Metro- and Neighborhood-level Characteristics Associated with Arts Growth, 2001-2011. Matt Patterson, University of Calgary; Daniel Silver, University of Toronto Has Neo-Bohemia Changed: Neo-Bohemia and Neo-Bohemians in Philadelphia. Geoffrey Moss, Temple University; Rachel Wildfeuer, Temple University Table 02. Culture and Identities in the City Presider: Melis Su Kural, State University of New York-Buffalo Beyond the Labor Market: Meaning Making, Lifestyle Choice and Middle Class Economic Security. Alexis Mann, Brandeis University The Interplay between Inconspicuous Consumption and the Built Environment: Lessons from a New Delhi Neighborhood. Meenoo Kohli, University of California, Santa Cruz The Price of China Dream: Language Endangerment, Upward Mobility, and Social Exclusion in Shanghai. Fang Xu, University of California, Berkeley Urban Marginalization 'from below' in Youngstown, Ohio. James Rhodes, University of Manchester Table 03. Diversity and Urbanism Presider: Lauren Hughes Hannscott, Pennsylvania State University Diversity without Integration: A Case Study of Pro-Diversity Neighbors in a Racially Diverse Neighborhood. Gina Spitz, Loyola University Chicago Does Diversity in a Neighborhood Lead to a Diverse Social Life? Alan V. Grigsby, University of Cincinnati Precursors to Neighborhood Revitalization? Immigrant Growth and Neighborhood Change in New and Traditional Immigrant Settlement Areas. Rebbeca Tesfai, Temple University; Matt Ruther, University of Colorado; Janice Madden, University of Pennsylvania Trading Affluence for Diversity? A Discrete Choice Analysis of the Neighborhood Destination Choices of Mixed-Race Couples. Amy L. Spring, Georgia State University Table 04. Environment and Health in the City Presider: William Michelson, University of Toronto Accessible Rations: A Study of Food Environment and Race in Forsyth County, North Carolina. Tangela G. Towns, Winston-Salem State University; Richard Greg Moye, Winston Salem State University Hazard Experience, Vulnerability, and Flood Risk Perceptions in a Post-Disaster City. Kevin Fox Gotham, Tulane University; Bradford Powers, Tulane University; Katie R. Lauve-Moon, Tulane University Providing HIV Treatment in Rural Areas: A Qualitative Analysis of Provider Perspectives. Heather Rodriguez, Central Connecticut State University Shared Environmental Vulnerabilities of Global Urbanism: Waste Management and the Treadmill of Production. Albert S. Fu, Kutztown University State Governments and/or Advantaged Neighbors: Changes in Neighborhood-Level Toxic Concentration at Multiple Geographic Scales, 2001-2010. Juyoung Lee, Brown University Table 05. Fringes and Suburbs Presider: Brian James McCabe, Georgetown University Choice Under Duress: Life in the Suburban Fringe of a Financialized San Francisco Bay Area. Mary Shi, UC Berkeley On the Challenges to (Studying) Suburbanization in the Global South: Zambia’s Urban Peripheries. Derek Roberts, The Copperbelt University The Legacy Effect: How Neighborhood Trajectories Matter to Organizational Deprivation in the Suburbs. Jennifer Bouek, Brown University; Benjamin? A Spatial Analysis of Residential Evictions in Brooklyn New York. Max Arthur Herman, New Jersey City University; Franklyn Arroyo, New Jersey City University; William Montgomery, New Jersey City University If You Build It, They Will Come: Retailers and Racial Gentrification. Mahesh Somashekhar, University of Washington The Role of Morality in Contemporary Urban Development. Vinay Kumar, State University of New York at Buffalo; Christopher Mele We’ve Been Doing Fine: Reframing Narratives of Disinvestment in Gentrifying Neighborhoods. Taylor Cain, Boston University Table 06. Gentrification Presider: Jason Patch, Roger Williams University Gentrification, Segregation or Deprivation? A Spatial Analysis of Residential Evictions in Brooklyn New York. Max Arthur Herman, New Jersey City University; Franklyn Arroyo, New Jersey City University; William Montgomery, New Jersey City University If You Build It, They Will Come: Retailers and Racial Gentrification. Mahesh Somashekhar, University of Washington The Role of Morality in Contemporary Urban Development. Vinay Kumar, State University of New York at Buffalo; Christopher Mele We’ve Been Doing Fine: Reframing Narratives of Disinvestment in Gentrifying Neighborhoods. Taylor Cain, Boston University

Table 07. Global Urban Politics Table Presider: William G. Holt, Birmingham-Southern College Economy, Culture and the Role of Meaning in Public-Private Social Housing in Canadian Cities. Zachary Hyde, University of British Columbia Mobilizing Discourses in Urban Social Movements in Macau. Esther Hio-Tong Castillo, Moravian College The Party and the Peddlers: Enacting Social Exclusion through Policy Dialogue in Brazil. Jacinto Cuvi, Université de Neuchâtel The Power Behind the Powerful: Public Good, Eminent Domain and Land Control in American Urban Centers. William G. Holt, Birmingham-Southern College Table 08. History, Belonging, and Collective Memory of Places Presider: Richard D. Lloyd, Vanderbilt University Feeling at Home in the City: Materials of Local Belonging in Helsinki and Madrid. Kaisa M. Kuurne, University of Eastern Finland; Victoria Gomez, Professor Ghosts, Doppelgängers, and Bêtes Noires: The Presence of Absent Neighborhoods in Urban Research. Jeffrey Nathaniel Parker, The University of Chicago Intersectional Consequences of Heritage Commodification in Cultural Enclave Neighborhoods. Jason Orne, Drexel University Neighborhood Legacies: Exploring the Importance of the History of Place and Its Influence on Today. Matthew James Martinez, Brown University; Johnelle Sparks, University of Texas at San Antonio Table 09. Housing 1 Presider: Nathanael T. Lauster, University of British Columbia Analyzing Accessory Dwelling Units on Long Island. Katrin B. Anacker, George Mason University; Christopher Niedt, Hofstra University Housing Wealth, Inter Vivos Transfers, and College Enrollment in the United States. Thomas Laidley, New York University Housing, Health and BMI in Australia. Bruce Keith Tranter, University of Tasmania; Jed Donoghue, University of Tasmania Social Support and Residential Stability in Privately Owned Assisted Housing. Kevin R. Beck, University of California- San Diego Speculators and Specters: Second Homeownership in Boston, Massachusetts. Meaghan Stiman, Boston University Table 10. Housing 2 Presider: Jennifer Rene Darrah-Okike, University of Hawaii How Race and Poverty Have Driven Changes in Housing Voucher Distributions Since the Great Recession. Rahim Kurwa, UCLA The Organization of Neglect: Limited Liability and Housing Disinvestment. Adam Silver Travis, Harvard University Variations in Responses among Faith-Based Affordable Housing to a Competitive Funding Environment. Patricia E. Tweet, St. John Fisher College; Christopher Mele Table 11. Images and the City Presider: Gordon Gauchat, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Capitalizing on Culture: The Case of Detroit. Mikell Alexandra Hyman, University of Michigan Inform and connect: Place Ambassadors and Social Capital-based Economic Development. Joshua M. Hurwitz, ; Tara Vinodrai, University of Waterloo Race and Representation in France and the United States. Gregory Smithsimon, Brooklyn College CUNY; Yohann Le Moigne, Université d'Angers; Alex Schafran, University of Leeds The Reinvention of Urban Space through Culture: The Case of Rio de Janeiro. Bruno Couto Table 12. Informal Labor and Urbanism Presider: Dana Kornberg, University of Michigan Governing the Informal: Informal Settlements and Exclusion in China, , and Brazil. Xuefei Ren, Michigan State University Making it Work: Learning to Succeed in a Public Marketplace. Laura A. Orrico, Penn State University, Abington Redefining Urban Amenities: Why and How to Include Non-to-moderate-Profit Cultural Spaces. Sampo Ruoppila, University of Turku Researching the ‘Backstage’ of the Creative Iindustries: The Socioeconomic Polarization within the Performance Arts of Brussels. Eva Swyngedouw, University of Brussels (VUB/ULB) Table 13. Land and Property Presider: Bernadette Ludwig, Wagner College Social Housing in Mexico and in China: Political Economy of Urbanization and Local Context. Yu Chen, The University of Texas at Austin Temporality, Strategy, and Competing Ideologies in the Implementation of Community Land Trusts. Allison Reed, University of Chicago To Protect the Core Property: Public Housing Policy, Race, and Urban Redevelopment in Baltimore. Peter Rosenblatt, Loyola University Chicago What Explains the Housing Vacancy in Today’s China? Extra Property, Land Finance, and Work Unit. Zequn Tang, State University of New York-Albany Table 14. Politics and the City Creative City Development as a Displacement Process: A Skills-based Analysis using Agent-Based Modeling. Megan Robinson, Vanderbilt University Planning for Just Sustainability: Justice-Speak and Black Political Power. Alesia Montgomery, Stanford University Political Fields and the Production of Political Places. Christian Rosen, Goethe University Urban Politics and the Contradictions of Globalization: A Seattle Case Study. Jerome Hodos, Franklin & Marshall College Why Can't I Stand in Front of My House? Street-Identified Blacks’ Negative Encounters with Police. Brooklynn K. Hitchens, Rutgers University, New Brunswick; Yasser A. Payne, University of Delaware; Darryl Chambers, University of Delaware Table 15. Race and Urban Development Table Presider: Watoii Rabii, State University of New York-Buffalo Immigration, Race, and Neighborhood Change on Buffalo's West Side. Robert M. Adelman, State University of New York-Buffalo; Aysegul Balta Ozgen, State University of New York-Buffalo; Watoii Rabii, State University of New York-Buffalo Model Cities? Racial Segregation in Progressive Cities. Stephen Appold, University of North Carolina Saving Black Portland: Organizational Roles in Preserving a Disintegrating Community. Angela Addae, University of Arizona Straight Gods, White Devils: Exploring Paths to Non-Religion in the Lives of Black LGBTQ People. Simone Alexandra Kolysh, The CUNY Graduate Center The Social Production of Racialized Space. Steven Tuttle, Loyola University Chicago Table 16. Race/Ethnicity and Segregation Presider: Felipe Antonio Dias, University of California at Berkeley Changing Racial Segregation in the New South Africa. Michael J. White, Brown University; Richard Ballard, Gauteng City-Region Observatory; Christian Hamann, Gauteng City-Region Observatory; Anna Nicole Kreisberg, Brown University The Ties that Bind Us: A Process-Based Approach to Understanding Attachment to Place. Lindsey D. Cameron, University of Michigan U.S. Immigration, Residential Queuing, and Neighborhood Mobility among Native-Born Families, 1968-2011. Jeremy Pais, University of Connecticut Table 17. Segregation Presider: Melody L. Boyd, SUNY-Brockport A Blurry Telescope? Moving Out as a Method to Assess Ethnic Preferences. Lincoln G. Quillian, Northwestern University; Antonio Nanni, Northwestern University Preferences for Integration vs Behavior: Can Preferences Really Explain Segregation? Richard Greg Moye, Winston Salem State University Standard versus Observed Residential Segregation, 1980 and 2010. Wenquan (Charles) Zhang; John R. Logan, Brown University The Role of Barriers in Shaping Segregation Profiles: The Importance of Visualizing Local Effects. Rory Kramer, Villanova University Urban Transformations and the Changing Structure of Segregation in the 21st Century. Jackelyn Hwang, Princeton University; Elizabeth Roberto, Princeton University; Jacob S. Rugh, Brigham Young University Table 18. Social Capital and Urbanism Presider: Mark Hutter, Rowan University Fitting in: Churches, Community Context, and Social Capital. Christopher Michael Graziul, Brown University Participation and Community: A Study of Four Chicago Neighborhoods Revisited. Pat Donahue, George Mason University The Role of Trust in Examining Relationships in Neighborhoods in Transition. Christina R. Jackson, Stockton University Trust in the City: The Social Determinants of Trust in Chicago Neighborhoods. Michael Evangelist, University of Michigan Table 19. Sustainability and the City The City and the Conflict over Bike Lanes: Logos, Ethos and Pathos. Saeed Hydaralli, Roger Williams University The Successive Nature of City Parks: Making and Remaking Unequal Access over Time. James R. Elliott, Rice University; Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, University of New Mexico; Daniel Bolger, Rice University Urban Agriculture in New Orleans. Yuki Kato, Georgetown University Are There Any Left? Production of Istanbul’s Green Spaces. Basak Durgun, George Mason University “Lifers” and “Bike People:” How Competing Neighborhood Narrative Frames Reproduce Neighborhood Inequality. Sarah S. Hosman, Boston University Table 20. The Networked City Contextualizing Collective Efficacy: Examining Sources of Neighborhood Attachment. Joy Kadowaki, Purdue University Global Cities and World Urban Networks and Hierarchies: Three Decades of Research. David A. Smith, University of California-Irvine; Michael Timberlake, University of Utah Global and Regional Hierarchy in City and World-Systems. Hiroko Inoue, University of California, Riverside Networked Vouchers. Monica C. Bell, Harvard University Table 21: The Role of Neighborhoods Presider: Tamara G.J. Leech, IU Fairbanks School of Public Health Higher-Order Spatial Structures and the Reproduction of Neighborhood Inequality: Exploring The Metropolitan Area’s Role. Jared Nathan Schachner, Harvard University Measuring Neighborhood Collective Efficacy with “Big Data” from 311 Systems. Tina Law, Neighborhood Differences in Temporal Patterns. Linsey Nicole Edwards, Princeton University Neighborhood Mechanisms and the Intergenerational Transmission of Status. Jared Nathan Schachner, Harvard University Table 22. Urban Planning Presider: Ferzana Havewala, University of Baltimore Anticipating the Global City: Elite Planning in the 1960s Redevelopment of Lower Manhattan. Michelle Esther O'Brien, New York University Business Impact on Communities’ Economic Development and Austerity Policies: An Extension of the Growth-Machine Framework. Lazarus Adua, University of Northern Iowa; Linda Lobao, Ohio State University Invisible Industries: The Politics and Struggles of Port Development Coalitions in Southern California. Emily Helen Yen, UCLA Seeing for a City: How Civic Organizations Interpret Social Problems for City Administrations. Bryant Crubaugh, Pepperdine University Urban (Under)development and Class Politics at Semi-peripheries: The Case of Łódź, Poland. Magdalena Rek-Wozniak, University of Lod

4. Expectations of CUSS Committee Members. Accepting membership on a CUSS Committee means a full-year commitment to do the following:  Perform agreed upon tasks as decided through committee  Communicate and follow up regularly with committee chair regarding specific tasks, needs and requests  Report progress of tasks as requested  Assist in recruiting new committee members and CUSS members generally  Attend ASA meeting and CUSS Business Meeting  Attend CUSS events, especially CUSS reception 5. Expectations of CUSS Council Members. Accepting membership on the CUSS Council means a three-year commitment to do the following:  Perform agreed upon tasks as decided through committee  Communicate and follow up regularly with committee chair regarding specific tasks, needs and requests  Report progress of tasks as requested  Assist in recruiting new committee members and CUSS members generally  Attend annual ASA meeting each year of the three-year term  Attend CUSS Council, CUSS Business Meeting, and other CUSS events, especially CUSS reception each year of the three-year term ______

CUSS Section Officers and Council Members:

Section Officers 2016-2017 Chair: Deirdre Oakley, Georgia State Univesty Chair-Elect: Miriam Greenberg, UC Santa Cruz Past Chair: Kevin Fox Gotham, Tulane Section Secretary/Treasurer: Jacob S. Rugh, Brigham Young University 2017 Section Council Michael D.M. Bader, American University 2017 Nicole P. Marwell, Baruch College/CUNY 2017 Andrew Deener, University of Connecticut 2018 Rachael A. Woldoff, West Virginia University 2018 Elena Vesselinov, CUNY 2019 Bruce Haynes, UC Davis 2019

Publications Committee Chenoa Flippen, University of Pennsylvania 2017 Yuki Kato, Tulane University 2017 Ann Owens, University of Southern California 2018 Nikki Jones, Univ of California, Berkeley 2018 Heather MacIndoe, UMass Boston 2019 Richard Ocejo, CUNY and John Jay 2019

Student Representative: Kevin P. Loughran, Northwestern University 2016 Membership Committee: Chair: Andrew Deener, University of Connecticut Robert Adelman, SUNY Buffalo, Kevin Fox Gotham, Tulane University Jennifer Darrah-Okike, Harvard University Jerome Hodos, Franklin and Marshall College CUSS Newsletter: William Holt, Southern Connecticut State University CUSS Webmaster: Ray Hutchison, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

______Recruiting and Retention Efforts What efforts did your section make to retain last year’s members and reach out to new members? What were the results of the section’s retention efforts?

In an effort to increase recruitment and retention of members, CUSS reorganized the section Membership Committee and created a new election cycle for 2017. We now have a new and very active committee in place. This resulted in a membership reach of 600 by the 2017 deadline of September 30th for number of paper sessions the Section would be allocated. ______Communications Strategy

How does your section communicate with its members? Did it begin using any new technologies or techniques, if so were they effective? Please include links to your section’s website, newsletter and other electronic media used.

We use several methods to communicate with section membership. The ASA membership list is used for ‘official’ communications (information about section business, announcements about the annual meeting, employment listings when the positions have been listed with ASA, and the like). We have more extensive outreach via an open-membership list ([email protected]) that combines membership from ASA-CUSS and the ISA-R21 Research Group. Our quarterly newsletter is sent to section members and to persons on the comurb_R21 mailing list. In 2015, we shut down the CUSS website as most information moved to the section listing on the ASA website. This has resulted in some complications in posting announcements. We continued discussions with the ASA webmaster about listing materials on the website. In 2015, we opened a page https://www.facebook.com/CUSS-484676411608646/ that is used to post messages as well as photographs from the annual meeting and news stories. The CUSS Facebook page has been effective in communicating with section members; posts are viewed by some 300 persons. One of the goals discussed at the 2017 ASA meeting is to increase our social media presence. ______Statements, Notes, Observations

Please feel free to use this space for anything that does not fit above.

In 2016, one the editors of City and Community announced that he was leaving Columbia for Facebook (Sudhir Venkatesh). We requested an official transition document from Co- Editor Lance Freeman. This was received in November, 2017. Dr. Freeman then become the sole editor of City and Community, although the Masthead continued to have Dr Venkatesh’s name listed for those future issues he had worked on. His name was removed by the June 2017 issue.

CITY & COMMUNITY 2017 ANNUAL REPORT PREPARED BY LANCE FREEMAN AND NADIA A. MIAN FOR THE AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE COMMUNITY AND URBAN SOCIOLOGY SECTION MONTREAL, QC, CANADA AUGUST 2017

INTRODUCTION

This report covers the 2016-2017 academic year (July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2017), representing issues 15:3, 15:4, 16:1, and 16:2. City & Community published 17 (5+4+4+4) “Institutions” essays, 16 (4+4+4+4) peer reviewed articles, and 10 (2+2+3+3) book reviews.

Since September 2016, there have been a few changes in the editorial office. Nadia Mian is currently managing editor of the journal, as the previous managing editor, Vance Pulchalski stepped down from the position to pursue doctoral studies at Princeton University. Since May 2017, Sudhir Venkatesh is no longer editor of City & Community, as he left to pursue a new endeavor at Facebook.

The editorial office has continued to manage two databases: 1) the manual excel spreadsheet database that was inherited by the Brown office, and 2) the online manuscript submission program, Scholar One. All new manuscript submissions are only accepted through Scholar One. We have made significant headway in publishing manuscripts from the old Excel spreadsheet, and have several papers left to publish. It is our hope that we will not have to transfer the manual database to the new editorial office in 2018.

The journal has continued with its symposium series, entitled “Institutions,” in which a select group of accomplished scholars reflects on a theme or topic central to urban sociology.

TABLE 1.1 CITY AND COMMUNITY INSTITUTIONS THEMES BY ISSUE

Issue Symposia Theme 15.3 Gentrification 15.4 Future of Public Housing in the US 16.1 Big Data 16.2 Trump/Brexit 16.3 Immigration 16.4 Urban Design and Placemaking 17.1 TBD 17.2 Crime

The journal continued to publish urban research with an international focus and examined cities in Mexico, Canada, Korea and Japan. These included a paper on the sociopolitical and spatial processes of a slum in Mexico, the role of young, one-person households in Seoul, and Tokyo, as well as the rise of helping behavior in Canadian cities.

1. JOURNAL STATISTICS

REVIEW PROCESS

City & Community received an increased number of overall manuscript submissions during the 2016-2017 academic year. From July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2017 we received a total of 186 original manuscripts (compared to last year’s 170). We attribute this to the quality of the journal in the field of urban studies, to its increasingly international readership, as well as the incorporation of the ScholarOne digital platform. Of the manuscripts submitted during this period, 53 were resubmissions, and 82 were rejected without review, as they were not appropriate for the journal.

Using the traditional ASA indicator for the acceptance rate (that is, the number of accepted manuscripts divided by the number of overall decisions), City & Community had an acceptance rate of 1.2% (2 manuscripts).

Despite notable tardiness by several reviewers, the editorial team conducted the review process as efficiently as possible. The average time for a manuscript from submission to first decision was 71 days, down from the previous year’s 93 days.

TABLE 1.2 CITY & COMMUNITY FIRST DECISION FOR NEW SUBMISSIONS

New submissions Avg. time to first decision Reject R&R Accept

2006-2007 60 69 days 57% 41% 2%

2007-2008 45 99 days 56% 38% 6%

2008-2009 47 104 days 76% 19% 5% 2009-2010 73 78 days 67% 29% 4%

2010-2011 70 123 days 66% 34% 3%

2011-2012 65 91 days 65% 31% 2%

2012-2013 69 95 days 67% 31% 2%

2013-2014 67 94 days 69% 26% 5%

2014-2015 74 98 days ------7%

2015-2016 91 93 days 49.4% 48.4% 2.2%

2016-2017 186 71 days 58.3% 33.9% 7.7%

New submissions figures exclude solicited manuscripts and symposia. Percentages include only those manuscripts for which the first decision was taken in the given year (July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2017).

The reject rate is calculated as the percentage of all manuscripts rejected out of manuscripts received, for which a decision has been made for 2016-2017. Desk rejects are excluded from this calculation.

The accept rate of 1.2% reflects manuscripts accepted out of those received from July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2017 for which a decision was taken during that period.

DESK REJECTIONS AND QUERIES

Desk rejections are decisions about manuscripts that are inappropriate for the journal and therefore are not sent out for review. From the period of July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2017, City & Community issued 82 desk rejections, comprising 39% of all new submissions received. Many of these rejected manuscripts arrived from outside the United States (70 of the 82, or 85%); many suffered from poor writing in English and/or did not meet the journal’s goal of advancing urban sociological theory.

2. SCHOLARLY USE AND DEMAND For 2016-2017, the journal had 572 subscriptions through section members, a very modest decrease from the 2015-2016 total of 575. We continue to have over 4,000 institutions who have purchased access, via either a Wiley License or a traditional (title- by- title) subscription, and about 51,000 full text download.

1 3. BIBLIOMETRICS City & Community’s Impact Factor for 2016 is 0.541 a decrease from 1.0789 in 2015. This is the frequency with which the average article in the journal was cited during the previous two years, calculated as a ratio between current year citations and the total number of C&C items published during the last two years. The Impact Factor is useful for academic prestige assessments and marketing. In addition, the journal’s 5-year impact factor in 2016 was 1.596 compared to 1.516 in 2015. The decrease in citations can be attributed to the inclusion of the Institutions section. While these shorter essays are very popular, they tend not to be cited as often as full peer-reviewed research articles. According to Wiley’s Bibliometrics Report, “Different article types tend to have different patterns of citation behavior, with review articles traditionally attracting the largest number of citations. As some content (such as Editorials or Meeting Abstracts) traditionally attract few citations, this content does not count towards the Impact Factor denominator” (7). The shorter institutions essays, however, will in the long run increase the journal’s visibility, attract more high quality submissions and eventually raise the journal’s profile.

In terms of rankings, City & Community places 107th out of 143 in sociology, and 32nd out of 38 in urban studies. This represents a decrease in rankings. Last year, City & Community ranked 61 (tied) out of 142 in sociology and 17th out of 39 in Urban Studies. The most cited article (5 times) in 2016 was “Parks for Profit: The High Line, Growth Machines, and the Uneven Development of Urban Public Spaces” by Kevin Loughran. “Moving for the Kids: Examining the Influence of Children on White Residential Segregation” by Kimberly Goyette, John Iceland and Elliot Weininger was also frequently cited (three times).

TABLE 1.3 IMPACT FACTOR COMPARISONS WITH PEER JOURNALS 2015-2016

Journal of Urban Affairs Urban Studies 26/38 0.889 1.151

Social Problems Sociology 36/143 1.291 1.684

Urban Affairs Review Urban Studies 20/38 0.933 1.308

Int. Journal of Urban and Geography 21/79 1.868 2.181 Regional Research

Int. Journal of Urban and Planning & 10/55 1.868 2.181

1 The following bibliometrics were compiled from the Journal Citation Report, as well as Wiley’s JCR Bibliometrics Report for 2016. To obtain a copy of Wiley’s report, please contact Jennifer Davison in the Boston office at [email protected]

Regional Research Development

Int. Journal of Urban and Urban Studies 5/38 1.868 2.181 Regional Research

Journal of the American Planning & 15/55 1.143 1.981 Planning Association Development

Journal of the American Urban Studies 10/38 1.143 1.981 Planning Association

Housing Policy Debate Planning & 27/55 1.54 1.278 Development

Housing Policy Debate Urban Studies 21/38 1.54 1.278

Urban Studies Environmental 29/105 1.934 2.364 Studies

Urban Studies Urban Studies 3/38 1.934 2.364

City & Community Sociology 107/143 1.079 0.541

City & Community Urban Studies 32/38 1.079 0.541

TABLE 1.5 AUTHOR LOCATION AND IMPACT FACTOR CITATIONS BY GEOGRAPHIC REGION The following table looks at the geographical distribution and citation trends of articles published in City & Community. The regions and countries are drawn from the corresponding author only. It should therefore be remembered that some regions may be under-represented – particularly those regions who traditionally nominate an English- speaking collaborator to be known as the corresponding author.

Region % Articles % IF Citations to Articles Asia 2.70% 0.00% Australasia 2.70% 0.00% Europe 5.41% 0.00%

Impact Factor is essentially a measure of average citations over a defined period of time (usually two or five years). This can be problematic as averages tend to disguise differences in the behavior of contributing articles. Journals with high Impact Factors may still have a high proportion of uncited content, with the Impact Factor score being reliant on the inclusion of a few highly-cited articles. This can result in Impact Factor fluctuations as the highly-cited articles fall out of the Impact Factor window. The citation distribution graphs below show the pattern of citation activity within City & Community in the 2016 Impact Factor period.

TABLE 1.4 CITATION TRENDS 2015 The percentage of articles that received 1-3 cites or 4+ cites

IF Period Citations % Articles Uncited 72.97% 1-3 Cites 24.32% 4-7 Cites 2.70% 8-12 Cites 0.00% 13-20 Cites 0.00% 21-40 Cites 0.00% 41+ Cites 0.00% TABLE 1.5 AUTHOR LOCATION AND IMPACT FACTOR CITATIONS BY GEOGRAPHIC REGION The following table looks at the geographical distribution and citation trends of articles published in City & Community. The regions and countries are drawn from the corresponding author only. It should therefore be remembered that some regions may be under-represented – particularly those regions who traditionally nominate an English- speaking collaborator to be known as the corresponding author.

Region % Articles % IF Citations to Articles Asia 2.70% 0.00% Australasia 2.70% 0.00% Europe 5.41% 0.00% North America 89.19% 100.00%

TABLE 1.6 TOP 10 INSTITUTIONS BY OUTPUT 2015

The following institutions produced the most articles published in City & Community in the years 2014-2015.

Institute Country No. Citable Items Avg IF Cites per Item Univ Calif Los Angeles USA 3 0.00 Northwestern Univ USA 2 3.00 Harvard Univ USA 2 1.00 Michigan State Univ USA 2 0.50 Univ Calif Irvine USA 2 0.00 Temple Univ USA 1 3.00 Univ Chicago USA 1 2.00 Arizona State Univ USA 1 1.00 Cornell Univ USA 1 1.00 CUNY Hunter Coll USA 1 1.00 James Madison Univ USA 1 1.00 Adelphi Univ USA 1 0.00 Bryn Mawr Coll USA 1 0.00 CUNY USA 1 0.00 Dept Geog USA 1 0.00 Fordham Univ USA 1 0.00 Free Univ Berlin Germany 1 0.00 Inst Culture & Soc Australia 1 0.00 Kent State Univ Stark USA 1 0.00 Monmouth Coll USA 1 0.00

TABLE 1.7 JOURNALS CITING ANY ISSUE OF CITY & COMMUNITY IN 2015 This table includes cites received in 2016 to articles published in any volume of City & Community.

Impact Factor Journal Total Cites (to Articles from All Years) 0.541 City & Community 35 2.364 Urban Studies 25 1.308 Urban Affairs Review 19 2.802 Demography 18 1.158 Urban Geography 16 1.327 Social Science Research 11 1.151 Journal of Urban Affairs 9 0.864 Geography Review 8 4.400 American Sociological Review 7 5.404 Annual Review of Sociology 6

3. EDITORIAL BOARD AND REVIEWERS One of the great strengths of City & Community is the expertise and diversity of our Editorial Board and our reviewers, both in terms of theoretical and methodological approach and their areas of regional interest. Two of our three Associate Editors reviewed for us at least once in 2016-2017. Rachael Woldoff and Patrick Sharkey submitted articles to the journal, and Rachael will also be acting as a guest editor for the (June 2018) 17:2 issue. Nine of the 16 editorial board members provided first or second round reviews for manuscripts received during 2015-2016. Anne Shlay will be writing a commentary on Trump/Brexit for (December) 16:4.

2 TABLE 1.8 BUDGET

2 For budgetary information, please contact the CUSS secretary/treasurer. The financial report ending September 2016 is attached. City & Community has remained under/at budget for 2016-2017. Given personal circumstances, Nadia Mian, the managing editor, was unable to travel to any conferences for the journal,thus reducing travel cost for 2017. CITY & COMMUNITY BUDGET

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Expenses

Photocopying 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Postage $55.08 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Miscellaneous $182.56 300 0 0 0 0 0* 0

Travel $635.00 1000 500 500 500 500 500 0

Extra pages over limit

Managing Editor 22,722.2 22,000 25,500 26,500 28,637 28,637 **30,081 17,136 Brown/Columbia 4

Includes STIPEND (19,500+ (23K+2500 (24K+2500) (23,000 + 0 (Academic Year + 2500) ) $3500) Summer) + fees

Total 23,594.8 23,300 26,000 27,000 30,581 17,136 8

Funding

Blackwell 18,000 18,000 18,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000

CUSS 689.54 1,503 500 500 500 500 500 17,136

$3 surcharge x membership

Brown 18,689.5 4,000 7500 6500 10,081** 0 University/Columbia 4 University

(Top up = Stipend – WB income)

Total 23,503 26,000 27,000 30,581

Surplus $203.00 203 203 * Does not include travel to new editorial offices to train new managing editors **Included fees (356 Health Fee Grad School+3225 Health Insurance) but not Brown Graduate School Tuition of $34,860. The Coming Year

This portion of the report discusses your section’s plans for next year. Elections and Nominations

This section details who is on the section’s Nominations Committee and how they were appointed. If your section does not have a standing Nominations Committee, please discuss your process for nominating candidates for next year’s elections.

According to our CUSS bylaws, the CUSS Council functions as the section’s nomination committee, selecting at least two section members to stand for election for the section’s elected positions: the Chair, the Council, and the Publications Committee. For 2017 Section Chair Deirdre Oakley has appointed Council member Michael Bader to coordinate the nominations committee for the following positions: the Chair-elect, The Secretary-Treasurer, two Council members and two Publications Committee members and one member of the newly elected position of Membership Committee. Michael Bader presented all nominees for these positions to the Council for review and approval. For 2018 Section Chair Miriam Greenberg will follow the same procedures. ______Plans for the coming year.

What sort of programming will your section conduct for next year’s Annual Meeting. Will the section begin any new projects before then?

2018 Section Chair Miriam Greenberg, in consultation with Council submitted the section’s 2018 by the October deadline. In addition, based on member feedback it was decided that we will continue our new mentorship program for the coming year.

CUSS Sessions 2018

Session 1: “Feeling Race,” and Spatial Inequalities, 50 Years after the Kerner Commission Report Co-Organizers: Chase Billingham, Asst. Professor of Sociology, Wichita State University Rahim Kurwa, Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, University of California Los Angeles Brandi Thompson Summers, Asst Professor of African American Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University

Addressing the 2018 ASA theme “Feeling Race,” this session upholds the idea that the lived and felt experience of race has profoundly spatial dimensions, as this experience interacts with spatialized forms of power and inequality— from segregation, ghettoization, and racialized policing to gentrification and the privatization of public space. Further, mindful that 2018 marks the 50th Anniversary of the Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, aka the Kerner Commission Report, and of the urban unrest and uprisings of 1968, the session is interested in how racialized emotions and the experience of spatial inequality may contribute to new forms of contestation. In the wake of urban crises, police violence, and protests in Flint, Ferguson, Baltimore, and around the country, we welcome work that reflects on this intersection. This could include responding to an array of questions, such as:

· What are the processes by which racial/spatial inequalities are reproduced and contested? · How does unequal urban space help shape racial categories, identities, experiences, and/or racialized emotions? · How do people “feel race” as they navigate and experience daily life in the city —from the search for housing, to interactions in public space, to residents’ encounters with the police? · How have contemporary urban uprisings and social movements been shaped by these race/space inequalities, and the feelings they produce?

We also welcome new scholarship that reflects on the Kerner Report, assesses its contributions, flaws, and omissions, and considers the merits of the solutions prescribed by its authors — as well as those proposed by contemporary thinkers, scholars, and movements.

Session 2: Re-conceptualizing U.S. Cities from a Global and Comparative Perspective

Co-Organizers: Ernesto Castañeda, Asst. Professor of Sociology, American University Xuefei Ren, Assoc. Professor of Sociology and Global Urban Studies, Michigan State University

American urban sociology is often disconnected from the debates that preoccupy the larger field of global urban studies. While the former tends to focus on core questions such as neighborhood effects, the reproduction of inequality, and the causes and consequences of black/white segregation in the United States, the latter tends to engage broad urban processes, including global urban networks, urban and suburban governance, and socio-spatial marginalization across multiple forms of difference, including in ghettos, barrios, banlieues, and informal settlements. One way to bridge this divide is to engage urban comparisons across north and south. Another is to focus on questions of space, marginalization, and difference that animate both fields, if often in different ways. This session seeks papers that can put U.S. and non-U.S. cities—especially those in the global South, on an even analytical plane, whether through direct comparison and/or by reconceptualizing U.S. urban dynamics from a global perspective. Particularly welcome are theoretical and empirical works that examine housing inequality, “ghettos,” immigration, citizenship, and the marginalization and racialization of space.

Session 3: The Social and Cultural Construction of Places

Co-Organizers: Robin Bartram, Ph.D Candidate, Sociology, Northwestern University Japonica Brown-Saracino, Assoc. Professor of Sociology, Boston University Ryan Centner, Asst. Professor of Urban Geography, London School of Economics Jeffrey Nathaniel Parker, Ph.D Candidate, Sociology, University of Chicago

While the emergence of Big Data and the persistence of urban inequality demand sociologists attend to quantifiable aspects of urban spaces, there is still a great deal that can only be understood with careful attention to social and cultural processes as they occur on the ground. We invite papers that address the formation, articulation, and contestation of social and/or cultural constructions of places, as well as methodological issues in how social scientists conceptualize the places we study. This could include, though is not limited to, research on how cities construct visions for themselves in the form of plans and broad identity discourses, and how these matter for cities as social places that are inherently uneven in terms of power and influence. We welcome papers that employ both top-down and bottom-up perspectives, as well as efforts to apprehend the interactions between these as they take shape in the adoption of or resistance to visions, plans, and processes of social construction. Building on a long line of research on the role of symbols and culture in urban theory as well as sociological research on the politics of urban boosterism and branding, this panel explores social and cultural construction as as an object of research in itself, as well as in terms of its influence on how we come to know something—or we come to think we know something—about places, neighborhoods, and cities. In the tradition of Firey and Suttles, as well as Lefebvre and Zukin, we ask how the city is both socially and culturally produced.

Session 4: Sociological Perspectives on the Affordable Housing Crisis

Co-Organizers: Jacob William Faber, Asst. Professor of Public Service, New York University–Wagner Brian J. McCabe, Assoc. Professor of Sociology, Georgetown University Eva Rosen, Asst. Professor, Georgetown University-McCourt School of Public Policy

Today, more than 11 million renters pay at least half of their income toward rent. Housing assistance programs, like the Housing Choice Voucher program, have been targeted by federal budget cuts while traditional, place-based public housing developments are being transformed by private development. Rents are rising quickly in American cities as incomes stagnate. Growing housing instability presents unique challenges for low-income renters. For this panel, we invite papers that investigate the causes and consequences of the housing affordability crisis in American cities. In recent years, sociologists have played a larger role in explaining this crisis. Our work explores how low-income households search for housing and navigate state bureaucracies for federal housing vouchers. It tackles the role of the state in providing assistance and the growing importance of non-profit and community-based organizations. Sociologists have wrestled with the effects of unstable housing in urban neighborhoods and the way homeowners often work to keep their neighborhoods segregated. Papers for this panel should broadly deal with the housing crisis, and topics may include the experiences of landlord, tenants or state institutions involved in providing housing assistance, or the broader social policies and structures that limit the production of affordable housing. We invite papers from diverse methodological perspectives, including quantitative analysis of administrative data and ethnographic accounts, as well as case studies from places hit hardest by the challenges of finding safe, decent and affordable housing. We hope that this specific focus on housing affordability contributes to the re-emergence of housing as a central topic of sociological inquiry.

CUSS Roundtables

Co-Organizers: Antwan Jones, Assoc. Professor of Sociology, George Washington University Chandra Ward, Asst. Professor, University of Tennessee at Chatanooga

Special Session of Interest:

The Fight for Fair Housing: Causes, Consequences, and Future Implications of the 1968 Federal Fair Housing Act

Gregory Squires, George Washington University (Organizer) Douglas S. Massey, Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton Lisa Rice, Executive Vice President, National Fair Housing Alliance Thomas J Sugrue, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History, New York University Paul Jargowsky, Professor of Public Policy, Rutgers University (Discussant)

The Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 was passed at a time of turmoil, conflict, and conflagration in cities across the nation. The Act had a dual mandate: ending discrimination and dismantling the segregated living patterns characterizing most cities. The Fight for Fair Housing, edited by Gregory D. Squires and published in 2018, commemorates the 50th anniversary of this law and tells what happened, why, and what remains to be done. The book brings together the nation’s leading fair housing activists and scholars to tell the stories that led to passage of the Fair Housing Act, its consequences, and the implications of the Act going forward. This session will bring together four contributors to this volume to recount and update their stories. Squires will provide an overview of evolving patterns of discrimination and segregation, and the politics framing past,present, and future fair housing scholarship and activism. Thomas Sugrue will survey the public policies and private practices that generated the activism leading to the 1968 law. Douglas S. Massey will examine the intersection of race and class focusing on the role of zoning in creating and perpetuating segregation. Lisa Rice will describe the dual housing finance market that has provided a critical structural underpinning of segregation. Paul Jargowsky will serve as a discussant and provide recommendations for future research and policy. ______

The Association and the Executive Office

This is your opportunity to put items onto the agenda of the Committee on Sections and ASA Staff.

What issues would you like raised or recommendations would you like to make to the ASA Council and Committee on Sections?

This is your opportunity to make policy suggestions or discuss any difficulties that your section encountered during your tenure as Section Chair.

The CUSS has one concern. In early 2017 we announced that we would be searching for a new Editor(s) of our section journal City and Community as our current editor, Lance Freeman, has been appointed Director of his department’s Ph.D. program and therefore decided not to pursue a second term. This would mean that the transition to the new editor would begin in January 2018 and go through July 2018, which is the official start of the new editorship. Part of the review and selection process is that once the Section’s Council and Publications Committee agree on the editor or co-editor team it then goes to the ASA Publications Committee for review. However, the ASA Publications Committee is not meeting until January 26, 2018. Since City and Community is a Section journal, the ASA Publications Committee is not a part of the decision making process but can express their recommendations and any concerns. The transition process typically begins at the beginning of January. This process is time consuming and typically takes six months. And in past years, the ASA Publications Committee has met in December. I have already spoken to Karen Edwards about this timing conflict. The co-Chairs of the CUSS Publications Committee will send a memo to Karen Edwards with the editorship recommendation so that she can forward it to members of the ASA Publications Committee meeting in December. The scheduling of the ASA Publication Committee in late January, rather than early December, may impact other Section journal editorial search processes. I say this not only because of our past experience with the ASA Publication Committee concerning editor selection input, but also because even though the ASA Publications Committee does not have decision making authority over section journals, the fact that we are required to solicit their comments means that moving their meeting to late January has the potential to impact the editorial transition.

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