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A book examining gentrification in North Portland鈥檚 Albina neighborhood will be the focus of a discussion at Powell鈥檚 City of Books on Sunday.

Sociologist Shani Adia Evans examines how the neighborhood changed and how Black residents adapted in 鈥淲e Belong Here: Gentrification, White Spacemaking and a Black Sense of Place.鈥� The 232-page book was published in March by the University of Chicago Press.

Albina became majority white between 1990 and 2010, according to the book.

Evans鈥� book 鈥渄ocuments Black residents鈥� efforts to create and maintain places for Black belonging in white-dominated Portland鈥� while detailing how 鈥渨hite spacemaking allows us to understand racism as a primary mechanism of neighborhood change,鈥� according to the publisher.

Albina has been a focus of efforts to reverse racist 20th-century urban renewal practices. Hundreds of Black-owned homes were demolished to make way for major infrastructure such as Interstate 5, Memorial Coliseum and what is now Legacy Emanuel Medical Center.

Albina Vision Trust is leading a remake of the neighborhood with opportunities for Black residents to pursue homeownership, rental housing and business ownership.

Evans will be in conversation with Leslie Goodlow, equity and business operations manager at the Portland Housing Bureau. The event is set for 7 p.m. on Sunday at Powell鈥檚, at 1005 W. Burnside St.