“Shani Evans writes like a home-grown magician, taking us both around and within how Black folks make lives and attempt to protect space in Portland, Oregon.”
Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy: An American Memoir
“We Belong Here . . . offers new frameworks for identifying - and hopefully dismantling - the ways that White spaces are intolerant of and oppressive for Black people.”
Mary Pattillo, author of Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City
“We Belong Here is a fundamental correction to class-based interpretations of Black displacement . . . unlike other analysts, Evans also includes Blacks’ resistance to this process . . . I will definitely assign this book in my classes.”
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, author of Racism Without Racists: Colorblind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States