Way Back West End Open Meetings
Held on the second Friday of the month email steineao@ucmail.uc.edu for location and time.
Contact Dr. Anne Delano Steinert to RSVP and for location information at steineao@mail.uc.edu.
Upcoming Events
Zane L. Miller Symposium: Conversations in the City
Root Shock: The Trauma of Displacement in American Cities & Cincinnati’s West End
Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the publication of her foundational book, Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About It with a talk about the psychological trauma of urban renewal in America. Fullilove developed the concept of Root Shock, “the trauma stress reaction to the destruction of all or part of one’s emotional ecosystem,” through her oral history-based investigations with Black Americans displaced by urban renewal. She will share her findings in this anniversary address while also providing an update on the evolution of our understandings of urban renewal-related trauma since the book’s publication twenty years ago. Further, Fullilove will place the history of Cincinnati’s Lower West End and Kenyon-Barr Urban Renewal Project within its larger national context.
Looking for past events? See the list of past events page.
