Betty Yu
“I’ve admired Tarry Hum’s work for a very long time, as well as Sam Stein’s. They are both scholars that I have such deep respect for, because they understand the role of academia within grassroots organizing, within anti-gentrification organizing, and within the larger container of social, economic, and racial justice movements. We need popular education that is written in a very accessible way, that’s digestible for everyday people to understand the dynamics of real estate, the dynamics of the creative class, of art and gentrification by the real estate developers—how they all fit together—so that they can be organizing tools for the people on the ground and on the frontlines. . . .”
by Samuel Stein, PhD candidate in Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and Urban Studies instructor at Hunter College. His scholarship addresses the increasingly powerful faction of government that seeks to bend public policy to support ever-rising property values. Stein has collaborated with Hum on a number of articles about how Sunset Park, Flushing, and Manhattan’s Chinatown are interwoven in a larger system of gentrification.
by Tarry Hum, Professor and Chair of Queens College’s Department of Urban Studies, and member of the Doctoral Faculty at the Graduate Center’s Environmental Psychology program. Hum’s research areas include immigrant urbanism, transnational capital and real estate financialization, urban planning and community economic development. Her scholarship and activism have often focused on these issues in the neighborhood of Flushing, Queens.
Betty Yu holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and a MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College. Her work has been exhibited, screened and featured at BRIC, Brooklyn, NY (2019); Open Source Gallery, New York, NY (2018); International Center of Photography, New York, NY, (date); Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (2015); George Eastman Kodak Museum, Rochester, NY, (date), Director’s Guild of America Asian Pacific Film & Video Festival, Los Angeles, CA, (2002); No Longer Empty Pop-up, New York, NY, (2013), and more. She has been an artist in residence at International Studio & Curatorial Program (2017), SPACE at Ryder Farm (2017), Skidmore College’s Documentary Studies Collaborative (2017), and Laundromat Project (2012).
Betty Yu
“I’ve admired Tarry Hum’s work for a very long time, as well as Sam Stein’s. They are both scholars that I have such deep respect for, because they understand the role of academia within grassroots organizing, within anti-gentrification organizing, and within the larger container of social, economic, and racial justice movements. We need popular education that is written in a very accessible way, that’s digestible for everyday people to understand the dynamics of real estate, the dynamics of the creative class, of art and gentrification by the real estate developers—how they all fit together—so that they can be organizing tools for the people on the ground and on the frontlines. . . .”
by Samuel Stein, PhD candidate in Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and Urban Studies instructor at Hunter College. His scholarship addresses the increasingly powerful faction of government that seeks to bend public policy to support ever-rising property values. Stein has collaborated with Hum on a number of articles about how Sunset Park, Flushing, and Manhattan’s Chinatown are interwoven in a larger system of gentrification.
by Tarry Hum, Professor and Chair of Queens College’s Department of Urban Studies, and member of the Doctoral Faculty at the Graduate Center’s Environmental Psychology program. Hum’s research areas include immigrant urbanism, transnational capital and real estate financialization, urban planning and community economic development. Her scholarship and activism have often focused on these issues in the neighborhood of Flushing, Queens.
Betty Yu holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and a MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College. Her work has been exhibited, screened and featured at BRIC, Brooklyn, NY (2019); Open Source Gallery, New York, NY (2018); International Center of Photography, New York, NY, (date); Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (2015); George Eastman Kodak Museum, Rochester, NY, (date), Director’s Guild of America Asian Pacific Film & Video Festival, Los Angeles, CA, (2002); No Longer Empty Pop-up, New York, NY, (2013), and more. She has been an artist in residence at International Studio & Curatorial Program (2017), SPACE at Ryder Farm (2017), Skidmore College’s Documentary Studies Collaborative (2017), and Laundromat Project (2012).