Patrick Sharkey, Associate Professor of Sociology at New York University and author of “Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress Toward Racial Equality” spoke at the Purpose Built Communities Annual Conference in Fort Worth, TX. He discussed how in the 1960s, many believed that the civil rights movement’s successes would foster a new era of racial equality in America. Four decades later, the degree of racial inequality has barely changed. To understand what went wrong, Professor Sharkey shared why we have to understand what has happened to African American communities over the last several decades and what urban policies that have the potential to create transformative and sustained changes in urban communities and for the families that live within them.
Patrick Sharkey, Associate Professor of Sociology at NYU
