Kinder Institute Forum | “Houston’s Northside Neighborhoods” Wednesday, March 5, 2025 7 p.m.-8:15 p.m.
March 5, 2025
Sociologists Elizabeth Korver-Glenn and Sarah Mayorga speak about their book, A Good Reputation: How Residents Fight for an American Barrio, with Ruth N. López Turley, director of the Kinder Institute. This new publication examines the development of Houston’s Northside neighborhood as well as the residents and their changing views on the transformation.
Plan Your Visit
- Admission is free with online registration.
- The conversation takes place in Brown Auditorium Theater on the lower level of the Law Building. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
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About the Speakers
Elizabeth Korver-Glenn is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Her research has been published in American Sociological Review, Social Problems, Social Currents, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, and City & Community, among others.
Sarah Mayorga is a professor and chair of sociology and core faculty in the Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies Program at Brandeis University. In addition to A Good Reputation, she has published two books: Behind the White Picket Fence: Power and Privilege in a Multiethnic Neighborhood and Urban Specters: The Everyday Harms of Racial Capitalism.
About the Kinder Institute Forum
The Kinder Institute Forum lecture series brings thought leaders from around the world to Houston to share ideas about today’s most pressing urban issues. Previous speakers include Pulitzer Prize–winning author Matthew Desmond, global urbanist Richard Florida, historian Richard Rothstein, urban advocate and strategist Carol Coletta, and U.S. Census Bureau director Robert L. Santos.
All Learning and Interpretation programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive generous support from H-E-B; Institute of Museum and Library Services; Sempra Foundation; the Brown Foundation, Inc.; the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; the Joe Barnhart Foundation; the Cockrell Family Fund; the CFP Foundation; Macey and Harry Reasoner; the Texas Commission on the Arts; and the Junior League of Houston, Inc.
Endowment funds are provided by the Louise Jarrett Moran Bequest; Caroline Wiess Law; Windgate Foundation; the William Randolph Hearst Foundation; Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Fondren Foundation; BMC Software, Inc.; the Wallace Foundation; the Neal Myers and Ken Black Children’s Art Fund; the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation; Medha and Shashank Karve; Virginia and Ira Jackson; Jesse H. Jones II; the CFP Foundation; the Favrot Fund; gifts in memory of John Wynne; Neiman Marcus Youth Arts Education; gifts in memory of Peter Lotz; and gifts in honor of Beth Schneider.