About
This Study
Rachael D. Stephens (Principal Investigator)
Rachael D. Stephens (Principal Investigator)
This project examines the everyday mechanics and lived experiences of racial capitalism through the lens of Greater Hartford’s public school finance system.
Rachael D. Stephens (Principal Investigator)
Rachael D. Stephens (Principal Investigator)
Rachael D. Stephens (Principal Investigator)
Rachael D. Stephens is a joint Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology and Education and a Graduate Fellow in Urban Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research and community work focus on Greater Hartford, Connecticut, as a site where the contradictions of American racial capitalism and liberal multiculturalism are enacted, contested, and opened up as possibilities for transformative change.
Sensory Topographies of Valuation
Rachael D. Stephens (Principal Investigator)
Sensory Topographies of Valuation
This multinodal archive --itself still in-the-making--helps audiences engage with the material signs (audio, visual, and somatic) through which residents valuate (or differentiate and rank) residential properties.
Preview the sensory topographies archive
"This is not 'Hartford'"
During a "drive around," Berto — a lifelong resident of the city’s South End — narrated what he saw as we passed through different neighborhoods in the City of Hartford. He had never before been to the space man call the "West End" and when I told him many call it a part of "Hartford," he quickly resisted, citing reasons like the "nice cars," "fresh air" and "QUIET" as key evidence that we were no longer in "Hartford"--or at least no longer in his "Hartford." For more, please click on "Sensory Topographies" on the top of the page.
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