‘To racialize community concerns about the future is to create a toxic straw horse. It will divert residents’ attention from fighting against the social and economic violence that accompanies gentrification.…
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Adele Oltman lives in Washington Heights and worked on Josue Perez's campaign for city council. The author of Sacred Mission, Worldly Ambition: Black Christian Nationalism in the Age of Jim Crow, she is working on a book about the history of public health and medicine in NYC in the post-war era.
