Waverly Duck (University of Pittsburgh), “There Were Black People in the Past: Gentrification, Displacement, and the Making of a Food Oasis” (Workshop on Race and Social Science)

In combining stakeholder interviews, site observations, and GIS mapping, Waverly Duck explains the development of a “food oasis,” a concentration of seven supermarkets within aquarter-mile radius in East Liberty, a poor and working class Black neighborhood. Duck shows that the creation of the food oasis has produced gentrification and has destabilized the local interaction order, which in turn, displaces Black residents.