1. Agenda Announcements Gentrification in North Portland: Historical Context Portlandia Discussion

2. Department of Art Lecture Series: Rico Gatson Thursday, November 20, 6:00 pm Lawrence Hall, Room 115 1190 Franklin Boulevard, Eugene O'Fallon Lecture by Maya Lin Thursday, November 20, 7:30 pm Erb Memorial Union, Ballroom 1222 East 13th Avenue, Eugene Tiya Miles: 4th Annual Peggy Pascoe Memorial Lecture “The Longest Unwritten Chapter: Interrelated Histories of African and Native America” November 21, 1pm, Knight Library Browsing Room Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples Conference Tuesday, 7pm at the Longhouse Wednesday, 9am to 3:15 at the Longhouse Attend any lecture or panel. Full schedule here: http://ccip.uoregon.edu/ Extra Credit Events

3. Walida Imarisha’s Oregon History Timeline: Thoughts? Reactions?

4. Gentrification in North Portland An Explanatory Chronology

5. Four Gentrification Risk Factors 1). Proportion of renters is greater than 45.6% 2). Proportion of communities of color is greater than 27.4% 3). Proportion of population 25+ without bachelor’s degree is greater than 56.3% 4). Proportion of households at or below 80% of the median family income is greater than 43.7%

7. 1948: Vanport Flood

10. Vanport Flood: Aftermath 1948: – 6,000+ African- Americans Displaced – Many relocate in North Portland 1960: – 10,000~ African Americans in Portland – 73% in shaded area

11. 1960s: Urban Renewal Neighborhood life disrupted (and thousands displaced) by: – Memorial Coliseum Construction (1960) – I-5 Construction (1962) – Emanuel Hospital (1973)

12. 1930s – 1990s: Redlining Oregonian Report (1990): – “North Portland gets... far fewer mortgages than other areas of the city.” – In largely black neighborhoods, the loan rate is one- sixth the rest of the city.

13. Gentrification is neither natural nor inevitable

14. Image Credits/Further Reading Gentrification: https://www.portlandoregon.gov/bps/62635 Redlining: http://www.upa.pdx.edu/IMS/currentprojects/TA Hv3/PDX_Places_GIS.html Urban Renewal: http://www.justseeds.org/blog/2011/03/albina.h tml Vanport Flood: http://www.ohs.org/education/oregonhistory/lea rning_center/dspresource.cfm?resource_ID=000 BC26B-EE5A-1E47-AE5A80B05272FE9F

15. What Role Do Shows Like Portlandia Play? Herbert: “Ultimately, what upsets me about Portlandia is really the larger problem of how Portland is perceived by the rest of the country. More people are moving there every day, ignorant of... Oregon’s very particular racial history: if you don’t know, it’s quite easy to believe that Portland is so white because it somehow just happens to be that way.”

16. Can Humor Help? Herbert: “To confront the uncomfortable lack of diversity in one of America’s liberal Meccas by bringing it up on the show could however, actually slowly enact a little change. By laughing at subtle racism, gentrification and white privilege, maybe we can subvert it.”

17. New York Times Article Portland has been able to attract and retain young college- educated people at the second- highest rate in the nation. College-educated residents earn 84 cents for the average dollar earned in other cities. Amenity Paradox: Where the same amenities that attract people end up eroding what made a city desirable in the first place.

18. Future of Portland? New York Times: “As job prospects improve, and unemployment shrinks to its lowest levels since the crash, it’s likely that many of the young people who fled to Portland will soon chase their ambitions to less cool places — the ones that people move to when it’s time to become an adult. Then Portland will find out who the true believers really are.”

19. Reminders Thursday: – Reading Solnit’s Hollow City (posted to the blog) Friday: – Five-item annotated bibliography due Tuesday: – Last quiz (on New Orleans/Portland/San Francisco readings and discussion) Dec. 10 th : – Final paper due (full assignment now on the blog)