Join us for a book talk of Sixty Miles Upriver: Gentrification and Race in a Small American City, with author Richard E. Ocejo.
December 5, 2025, from 11:20 AM to 12:20 PM
Rutgers–Camden Alumni House, 312 Cooper St, Camden, NJ 08102
REGISTRATION REQUIRED. Register via the form below.
The talk will be followed by a provided lunch from 12:30 – 2 PM.
Dr. Richard E. Ocejo, the recipient of the Eastern Sociological Society’s 2024-2025 Robin M. Williams, Jr. Distinguished Lecturer Award, will talk about his book Sixty Miles Upriver: Gentrification and Race in a Small American City.
Newburgh is a small postindustrial city of some twenty-eight thousand people located sixty miles north of New York City in the Hudson River Valley. Like many other similarly sized cities across America, it has been beset with poverty and crime after decades of decline, with few opportunities for its predominantly minority residents. In this talk, based on his book Sixty Miles Upriver, Richard Ocejo tells the story of how Newburgh started gentrifying, describing what happens when White creative professionals seek out racially diverse and working-class communities and revealing how gentrification is increasingly happening outside large city centers in places where it unfolds in new ways.
This is sponsored by the Rutgers–Camden Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice, the Department of Public Policy and Administration, The Center for Urban Research and Education, and the Eastern Sociological Society.