Dr. Justin Hosbey

Biography

Justin Hosbey is an Assistant Professor in the City and Regional Planning department at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a humanistic social scientist and a scholar in Black studies whose ethnographic work focuses on Black social and cultural life in the U.S. Gulf Coast and Mississippi Delta regions. He examines how southern Black communities articulate modes of citizenship and challenge the interruptions caused by racial capitalism and ecocide. His current research project utilizes digital spatial humanities methods to understand and visualize the effects of post-Katrina privatization on neighborhood schools serving low-income, working-class Black communities in New Orleans. His work contributes to the field of cultural political economy, with specializations in racism, Black ecologies, and the intersection of digital humanities with social justice themes.

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