Japonica Brown-Saracino is a regular commentator for major news organizations such as CNN, The New York Times, and The Atlantic and is the award-winning author of A Neighborhood that Never Changes: Gentrification, Social Preservation, and the Search for Authenticity and How Places Make Us: Novel LBQ Identities in Four Small Cities. She is professor of sociology and women’s, gender, and sexualities studies at Boston University, where she serves as faculty fellow at the Initiative on Cities.

"This wide-ranging study explores how the term ‘gentrification’ has slipped the bonds of its original, ‘brick-and-mortar’ usage, becoming a way to signal loss while addressing ‘structural inequalities and concomitant social changes.’"

Japonica Brown-Saracino is a regular commentator for major news organizations such as CNN, The New York Times, and The Atlantic and is the award-winning author of A Neighborhood that Never Changes: Gentrification, Social Preservation, and the Search for Authenticity and How Places Make Us: Novel LBQ Identities in Four Small Cities. She is professor of sociology and women’s, gender, and sexualities studies at Boston University, where she serves as faculty fellow at the Initiative on Cities.

"This wide-ranging study explores how the term ‘gentrification’ has slipped the bonds of its original, ‘brick-and-mortar’ usage, becoming a way to signal loss while addressing ‘structural inequalities and concomitant social changes.’"

Japonica Brown-Saracino is a regular commentator for major news organizations such as CNN, The New York Times, and The Atlantic and is the award-winning author of A Neighborhood that Never Changes: Gentrification, Social Preservation, and the Search for Authenticity and How Places Make Us: Novel LBQ Identities in Four Small Cities. She is professor of sociology and women’s, gender, and sexualities studies at Boston University, where she serves as faculty fellow at the Initiative on Cities.

"This wide-ranging study explores how the term ‘gentrification’ has slipped the bonds of its original, ‘brick-and-mortar’ usage, becoming a way to signal loss while addressing ‘structural inequalities and concomitant social changes.’"