Tyler Denmead Book Talk: The Creative Underclass: Youth, Race, and the Gentrifying City

Speaker Name: Tyler Denmead, PhD
Speaker’s Website: www.tylerdenmead.org
Department: University Lecturer, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge; Fellow and Director of Studies in Education, Queens’ College

Join author Tyler Denmead, PhD as he discusses his forthcoming book “The Creative Underclass”. 

In “The Creative Underclass”, Denmead critically examines his paradoxical role as the founder of an American-based arts studio for youth. Some young people have credited the studio with providing transformative educational experiences, while, at the same time, acting as a gentrifying force in their neighborhoods. Denmead will discuss how the concept of the creative underclass is useful in understanding this paradox and the ways in which young people refuse gentrification and its troubling racial logics through their creative practices.

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