On November 15 at 3:00 p.m., the Center for Middletown Studies will host a conversation with urban sociologist Richard Ocejo about his new book, Sixty Miles Upriver: Gentrification and Race in a Small American City. The book is an intimate exploration of the moral dilemma at the heart of gentrification in Newburgh, New York, a small, post-industrial city in the Hudson Valley. Ocejo will discuss how progressive White gentrifiers justify controversial urban changes as morally good, and how their actions carry profound and lasting consequences for vulnerable residents of color. Ocejo is Professor of Sociology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. Please join us for this conversation on Zoom by registering here. Questions? Email Jen Erickson, Assistant Director of the Center for Middletown Studies at jlerickson@bsu.edu.