Justin Hosbey

Assistant Professor of City & Regional Planning

justh@berkeley.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS

Cultural and political economy of racism, Black ecologies, racial capitalism, digital and spatial humanities

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Hosbey (he/his) is a humanistic social scientist and Black studies scholar. His ethnographic work explores Black social and cultural life in the U.S. Gulf Coast and Mississippi Delta regions, focusing on the ways that southern Black communities articulate modes of citizenship that demand the interruption of racial capitalism and ecocide. His current ethnographic project utilizes research methods from the digital and spatial humanities to understand and visualize how the post-Katrina privatization of neighborhood schools in low-income and working-class Black communities has fractured, but not broken, space and placemaking in Black New Orleans.

Publications

Hosbey, J. T., & Roane, J. T. A Totally Different Form of Living: On the Legacies of Displacement and Marronage as Black Ecologies. Southern Cultures, 27(1), 68–73 (2021).

Roane, J.T. and Justin Hosbey “Mapping Black Ecologies.” Current Research in Digital History 2: 2019.05 (2019).

Hosbey, Justin T. “Refusing Unliveable Destinies: Towards a Future for Black Life in New Orleans.” FIRE: The Multimedia Journal of Black Studies 5(1): 35-47 (Fall 2018).

Hosbey, Justin T. “I looked with all the eyes I had: Black Women’s Vision and the Stakes of Heritage in Nicodemus, Kansas.” Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development 45 (Fall 2016).

Ortiz, Paul A., Derrick White, Justin Dunnavant, Randi Gill-Sadler, Justin Hosbey, and Ryan Morini. “The Class Basis of the Race Question in the United States: C.L.R. James on Oliver Cox’s Caste, Class, and Race at the Institute of the Black World. New Politics 15 (Winter 2016): 43-60.