Greg Smithsimon

Sociology prof, Brooklyn College, CUNY. Author of Liberty Road and Cause and How It Doesn't Always Equal Effect. Climate change, race, Paris, Baltimore, NYC

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Giving a book talk and conversation with Carla Nelson Chambers about my book, Liberty Road, this Sat Oct 7, 1:30pm at Randallstown Public Library, in the area where I did my research https://t.co/E93X6NwZcK
#LibertyRoad #Baltimore #BlackSuburbs @NYUpress @GC_CUNY @bklyncollege411

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I'd take issue with his explanation for why Mahgreb women see greater success in France than men; he's not looking at the different stereotypes both have to face, a well-known factor in gender differences for groups in the US.

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French researcher: 2nd gen N. Africans in professions near the national average. Contradicts the perpetual claim that the latest generation of immigrants isn't doing what immigrants have always done or that social mobility is broken. https://t.co/xu9obTuV9y

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Looking forward to a conversation with Larry Jackson about my book Liberty Road, in Baltimore March 27. Hope to see you there.
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@TheIvyBookshop #LibertyRoad #Baltimore #BlackSuburbs @NYUpress @GC_CUNY @bklyncollege411 @JHUHumanities

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Excited to have been interviewed by Sheila Kast on WYPR's On the Record about my new book Liberty Road #LibertyRoad #Baltimore #BlackSuburbs @NYUpress @GC_CUNY @bklyncollege411 https://t.co/QJ1ODHRkGB

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Pleased my new book is in @BaltimoreSun. Kelley got to the heart: people like James Crockett, Ella White Campbell & James Rouse's work to build Black suburbs. @NYUpress @GC_CUNY @bklyncollege411 #LibertyRoad #BlackAmerica #Neoliberalism #CivilRights https://t.co/FBjst7g8xD

[Alyssa Battistoni @alybatt]

Mike Davis was so ahead of the curve on Marxist ecology because he was interested in making sense of all the world—Malibu real estate & So Cal flora & LA tenements; El Niños & grain markets & colonial policy. a true materialist. so grateful for all he taught us, RIP.

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Flattered to be quoted here because my colleagues’ comments are so sharp. The show thinks “community policing” makes it cutting edge; isn’t that term from a decade ago? @latimes #EastNewYork @avitale

[Los Angeles Times @latimes]

Indeed, beyond whether the show feels authentic to police officers — and, of course, entertaining to viewers — lies the question of whether it does more than pay lip service to ideas that have been hotly debated over the last two years.

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Correction: Un pays qui se tient sage

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Just watched Monopoly of Violence/Un Pays Qui Tient Sage, doc on France's Yellow Vest mmt. Good for dif lefty responses to populist movements: messy groundswell resentments against elites, or reactionary demands to preserve fading privilege? 1/4 #France #GiletsJaunes

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That ambiguous populist/libertarian/anti-elite position was part of the early days of Occupy. PIR saw petty white resentment in the 2016 La Nuit Debout protests. Someone provocatively claimed the US equivalent of Gilets Jaunes is Black Friday: they just want a better deal. 4/4

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@prudencelcarter Similar findings from 1978 study "Whites, on the other hand, are reluctant to remain in neighborhoods where blacks are moving in and will not buy homes in already integrated areas." @doc_thoughts @SandyDarity @DarrickHamilton @learothawms @therevcw @WSpriggs

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Pleased to have this out in Metropolitics: Elizabeth Nelson on how people in France use urban spaces differently in Paris and the banlieues to develop varied aspects of French and Algerian identities.
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(4/4) Regional Plan Association report on flooding: https://t.co/ucbtFKHjco

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Starting a research project on basement flooding in New York like that following Hurricane Ida. Several different reports with recommendations are coming out that I want to share. If there are others let me know. (1/4)

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(3/4) Report from Comptroller Brad Lander’s office https://t.co/UzpsR14lwy

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@Judah_Grunstein There’s a professional application; Hans Rosling says in a book of his I picked up at a conference last week that our impulse to divide things into opposites leads to us imagining extremes, like Developed World and the Developing World when most people are in the middle.