Regional equity is an issue of great concern in the Minneapolis – St. Paul area. Though the region is prosperous overall, the benefits of prosperity are not evenly shared. In this, the 50th anniversary of its creation by the Regents of the University of Minnesota, the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) will present a series of speaking events focused on this question of regional equity. We have invited speakers from the Twin Cities and across the country to engage us in a conversation about what equity means, what the pursuit of equity might look like, and the implications for communities within the region.
The CURA 50th Anniversary Seminar Series
The One-Way Street of Integration: Pursuing racial and regional equity in America’s urban areas.
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Cowles Auditorium
Humphrey Building, West Bank Campus
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Reception to follow.
Edward G. Goetz, Director of CURA and Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Minnesota
How can we use housing policy to achieve greater racial and regional equity in American cities? Professor Ed Goetz discusses his new book, "The One-Way Street of Integration" and contrasts two housing policy approaches, integration initiatives and community development, and their prospects for achieving racial justice. He maintains that fair housing advocates have adopted a spatial strategy of advocacy that has increasingly brought fair housing concerns into conflict with community development efforts. Goetz argues that integration efforts focus on the spatial arrangement of people and ignore underlying racism and issues of economic and political power. Community building initiatives have the greater potential for connecting to social change and social justice efforts.
Following Dr. Goetz's presentation there will be a panel discussion including leaders in community organizing, community development, and education.
De-Gentrifying Portland: So hopefully you won't have to go through that
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Cowles Auditorium
Humphrey Building, West Bank Campus
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Reception to follow
Lisa Bates, Associate Professor of Urban Planning, Portland State University
All tickets for the event have been allocated. Live stream the event on the CURA Facebook page.
African American communities, enclosed and excluded by discrimination and disinvestment, are now being dismantled by gentrification in many of our cities. In the face of impending erasure, communities of color are organizing to demand not only mitigating anti-displacement policies, but de-gentrification and the right to stay in place.
Addressing this demand requires more than just a gesture towards equity concerns, but analyzing and correcting for the unjust distributional impacts of investments. How can we grapple with these issues of housing and neighborhood revitalization in our cities in ways that not only acknowledge historical legacies, but also engage present day planning practices?
In her talk "De-Gentrifying Portland: so hopefully you won’t have to go through that," Dr. Lisa K. Bates will speak about her research and practice in Portland, Oregon’s historically Black neighborhoods. Lessons drawn point to challenges, but also strategies and opportunities to center racial justice in policy and planning.
Following Dr. Bates' presentation there will be a panel discussion that include these panelists:
CURA 50th Anniversary Alumni Open House
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Humphrey Forum (Located in the Humphrey Building)
301 19th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55455
In 2018, the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) is marking fifty years of community-engaged research with a series of events to thank our community, faculty, staff and alumni partners.
You are invited to an open house for all former and current CURA staff and alumni. This event is an opportunity to thank you for your contributions to CURA, the University of Minnesota and our community partners.
This informal event will feature a light program and refreshments. We hope that you take this opportunity to connect and engage with colleagues and friends.
We would love for you to share how your involvement with CURA impacted you. The registration form has an opportunity to share your story or you can email us your story to [email protected].
Thank you to the McKnight Foundation for sponsoring this event and for its years of support for CURA's work.
Justice, Segregation, and Ghetto Poverty
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Cowles Auditorium
Humphrey Building, West Bank Campus
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Reception to follow
Tommie Shelby, Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University
Ghettos are metropolitan neighborhoods marked by racial segregation and concentrated disadvantage. To reduce the unfair disadvantages that the ghetto poor face, some have proposed residential integration. I argue that while such measures, when voluntary, may help the ghetto poor, justice does not require residential integration but rather egalitarian pluralism. I highlight the limits of the integrationist solution and explain the virtues of the egalitarian pluralist alternative.
Sorry, all tickets for the CURA 50th Seminar Series: Tommie Shelby have been spoken for.
The 1967 Plymouth Avenue Rebellion: Its Impact and Meaning for Today
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Keith Mayes, Associate Professor of African-American and African Studies, University of Minnesota
Spike Moss, civil rights activist
For three nights in July 1967, the North Side of Minneapolis along Plymouth Avenue erupted in rebellion. Police and National Guard units were called in to occupy parts of the neighborhood in response. The so-called "urban crisis" of the 1960s produced similar events in many other cities in the U.S. This crisis and the conditions behind it that prevailed in many communities of color during the 1960s was the impetus for the University board of Regents to establish the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) in 1968. As we commemorate our 50th anniversary, we have invited community leader Spike Moss and Keith Mayes, associate professor of African American and African Studies at the University of Minnesota to join us for the last in our Anniversary Seminar series. Moss and Mayes will discuss the events of July 1967 and their relevance for today.
Registration for the event is full. Thank you for your interest.
Reception to follow
NOTE THE DIFFERENT LOCATION FOR THIS EVENT
John B. Davis Education Service Center
1250 W Broadway Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55411
Riot police along Plymouth Avenue during the rebellion in North Minneapolis. Photo Courtesy MN Historical Society.