NYU Furman Center Sheryll Cashin Book Event

On Wednesday, September 22 at 3:00pm ET, the NYU Furman Center will host a virtual conversation about the themes and implications of Sheryll Cashin's new book, White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality. The discussion will be moderated by Faculty Director Ingrid Gould Ellen.

In her book, Sheryll Cashin, the acclaimed author of Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America and Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy, exposes the ways in which American policy decisions have constructed a “residential caste system” resulting in the entrapment of poor Black people in high-poverty neighborhoods while excessive resources are funneled to affluent environs in the same cities. Cashin contends that geography is now central to American caste, and details how policy decisions made in the early twentieth century to intentionally construct “ghettos” manifest in inequality and opportunity hoarding today.

Sheryll Cashin writes about the US struggle with racism and inequality. Her books have been nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Nonfiction, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Nonfiction, and an Editors’ Choice in the New York Times Book Review. Cashin is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law, Civil Rights and Social Justice at Georgetown University and an active member of the Poverty and Race Research Action Council. Follow her at sheryllcashin.com and on Twitter @sheryllcashin.

Ingrid Gould Ellen is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and Faculty Director of the NYU Furman Center. Her research centers on neighborhoods, housing, and residential segregation. Ingrid is the co-editor of The Dream Revisited: Contemporary Debates About Housing, Segregation, and Opportunity (Columbia University Press, 2018).