Ken Kolb
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Sociologist @FurmanU | @beardfoundation award finalist | | Chair SC chapter @SSNScholars | Author: Retail Inequality
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NBC news came to town. I’m interviewed at 1:55 mark
South Carolina’s remarkable economic growth is changing the electorate. We went inside BMW’s massive plant (where I took a mallet to a $200K car), and to West Greenville, where the Black population has declined as prices force residents out, to learn more.
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Unpopular opinion: if you are tenured, you’ve gotta do some peer reviews, like pretty regularly. I know system is broke and exploitative and needs reforms, but junior folks’ lives are on hold, waiting on reviewers, and time is not in their side.
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Dept chairs. Got new faculty of color? Your admins are coming for them to fill all the new DEI service committees they created in past year. You need to block and tackle for your junior colleagues and protect their time.
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holy shit. my student loans were just forgiven. I've been paying them off for 14 yrs
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How much $$ do academic authors really make off their books? While some superstars make a ton, they represent less than 1% of book authors. In this thread I'll post my most recent royalty statement and break down the real numbers
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Just got my royalty statement for last book. Here it is. Spent 7 yrs of my life writing this thing. It came out in 2014. Won an ASA section book award. I'll be lucky if it ever reaches 900 in sales.
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On a team at Furman that is putting together some really cool data viz about racial inequality in Greenville, SC that is going to connect the dots between past and present. Racist covenants, white flight, gentrification, displacement... it's all there. Stay tuned.
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Happy to announce that my book, Retail Inequality, received an Honorable Mention for the 2022
@SocConsumption
book award.
A quick thread on why this means so much to me
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Job alert! Furman sociology will be hiring for two positions to start Fall ‘23. One Quant methods (area open), the other Criminology (open methods). Both are open rank searches. 2-3 load with pre-tenure sabbatical option. Email me questions.
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I've been nominated for a Beard award!
I'm one of three remaining finalists for the "Food Issues and Advocacy" James Beard book award. Still can't quite believe it.
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The revitalization of Greenville is an amazing story about how a local economy can recover from the collapse of an entire industry (textiles). But it has come at a cost that must be reckoned with.
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I was interviewed by Today Show about gentrification and racial displacement in Greenville, SC. My spot is at 1:55 min mark
.
@jacobsoboroff
is in South Carolina investigating how the state of the economy is affecting South Carolina voters.
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Hey! Got a unanimous vote for promotion to full professor! Next steps: faculty wide committee vote in April, then Board of Trustees this summer.
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Furman sociology to hire a Visiting Assistant Professor for academic year 2021-22. Reasonable teaching load, full benefits, nice office space. Wish it was tenure track, but I'll observe you teach, write you a letter, and help you in any way I can.
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Just got my first external grant. It's a sub-award, and I'm only a co-PI, but it still $85k of work, and that's not nothing.
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Today I start putting together the index for my book. Will take about 30-40 hrs of work. This is how I do it.
A thread
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The term "food desert" is flawed on a number of levels. (1) It ignores the policies that created them. (2) It's also too narrow. The fight is about so much more than food. It is about getting "good" retail back and keeping "bad" retail from taking over
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On the hill today talking with house and senate staffers about affordable housing. Trying to put this PhD to good use! Thanks
@SSNScholars
for organizing this trip.
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If a grifter whines in the forest, and no one is around, does it make a sound?
I'm calling bullshit. I work at Furman and talk with students everyday. I heard nothing about this event. Angry mob? Please.
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Great book. Recommend. Will change the way I teach theory forever.
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On a grad student paper award competition review committee. And all I have to say is that I think sociology is going to be alright. Next gen of scholars is 🔥
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Just got invited to give a talk
@UNCSociology
this fall. That's where I got my PhD (a lifetime ago). Really quite honored. Kind of hard to process.
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I gathered data about gentrification. City officials challenged my findings. I was ready for a data-driven dialogue. Instead, they sent a PR firm.
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The session I organized for ASA 2022 was accepted. This was a first for me.
Look out for outstanding research on "Displacement, Gentrification, and Food Access: Unpacking the Past and Reimagining the Future" in Los Angeles next year.
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Got invited to give a talk.
Gave it.
Now I’m in the hotel wearing the cushy robe you can buy but nobody ever does.
Life is good.
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@RGGonzales1
@heavyredaction
I can't claim my book is better than any of the other awesome suggestions here. But I did use real identities (not pseudonyms) in my book, and I'd be happy to talk to your students about that decision.
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More housing won’t slow racial displacement in gentrifying areas.
Ran some #'s on the impact of new occupied housing units in Greenville, SC over past 10 yrs to see if increased supply would slow racial displacement.
Spoiler: it didn’t.
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This is what's driving racial displacement in the city of Greenville, SC >> one of the most extreme Black/white income gaps in the entire southeast
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Think academic book publishing is glamorous? Just got my royalties statement yesterday. First book, 2014, lifetime sales= 928. Second book, Jan 2022, 709 sold. I put about 15 years of my life into these two books and probably will get about $5k lifetime royalties out of them.
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More new data
Median household income, city of Greenville
white: $79,022
Black: $27,525
Rising rents + racial economic inequality = racial displacement.
It's not complicated
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Poor Black neighborhoods of today were born from exclusionary housing policies of the past.
Red dots indicate original racist deed covenants in Greenville, SC: Blacks were prohibited from buying property there.
Circled area represented their only option.
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Book launch! Check out my new website. Includes photos of community leaders I followed for 5 years.
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Over the past 30 years...
1. Greenville's Black neighborhoods have seen a 53% decline in # of Black residents
2. The white population in those same neighborhoods has nearly doubled
3. The 1 mi. radius surrounding Unity Park has lost 45% of its Black residents.
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Greenville, SC - Gentrification update
West Greenville & West End (tract 7, GVL county)
2011 vs 2021
Sit down for this mini-thread
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Documenting gentrification and racial displacement. Case study: Greenville,SC
Full report releases Monday
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Data viz partnership between
@FurmanU
and
@GreenvilleNews
is coming along. In September, look for Furman research on racial displacement in Greenville, SC to be featured in
@Gannett
papers throughout the Southeast
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Income inequality in Greenville, SC by race. It's not like this in peer cities throughout the southeast.
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This was the most rewarding
#PublicSociology
project I’ve ever done
This month, we're spotlighting
@kenHkolb
and his research focusing on the consequences of racial segregation & gentrification in Greenville, SC. He recently collaborated with
@GreenvilleNews
to shed light on the issue.
Read more about the project:
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My little food book is having a little bit of a moment
Big news out of
#foodstudies23
! We are pleased to announce that our very own Ken Kolb (
@kenHkolb
) has been awarded the top book prize by the
@ASFS_org
for RETAIL INEQUALITY. Congrats to Ken!
Get his award winning book now:
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Are you an academic working in food studies? Would you like to participate in a Q&A with White House staff tasked with developing National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health? If so, find my email and send me msg. I’ve got some extra invites.
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In the past 40 years, the city has grown 21% in population, but each year the number of Black residents has fallen.
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1 yr ago I wrote a piece that made some local figures so mad they complained all the way to the president of my university (thanks, tenure). Seems like a lifetime ago.
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Fermenting jalapeños and poblanos for a mild hot sauce. Should be ready in three weeks
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Led a collaboration between
@FurmanU
and
@Gannett
for upcoming
@GreenvilleNews
series.
Data drops Monday, news stories to follow
Documenting gentrification and racial displacement. Case study: Greenville,SC
Full report releases Monday
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Another amazingly gracious review from an amazingly talented sociologist
@tanyaboza
. Thank you!!
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Mid-career and thinking of moving into a new subfield? Sign up for a book award committee. Like studying for comps, but much more enjoyable. Reading the latest and greatest in
@SocConsumption
and really enjoying it.
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I am honored to announce my selection to the inaugural
@AspenFood
Food Leaders Fellowship. I join an extraordinary group of leaders ready to take on some of the toughest issues of today. More:
@AspenInstitute
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Haynie-Sirrine, Greenville SC. Before and after construction of US 29 (S. Church St).
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I've got a new report on gentrification and racial displacement occurring in the city of Greenville, SC coming out Monday morning at 7am. Clear statistics and visualizations based on most recent available data. Stay tuned...
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Happy to announce I'm the new state chapter leader for the Scholars Strategy Network in South Carolina. My job is to connect journalists and policy makers with top notch local researchers.
@SSNScholars
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When you’re 3 years in and they finally decide to give you the instruction manual ;)
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Before public sector improvements of areas that survived urban decline, cities need to find ways to keep people in place BEFORE rents start to rise.
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An investigative reporter from Gannett (which owns USA Today) just asked for a sit down interview about gentrification in Greenville, SC.
I’ve got some things to say.
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Just sent the annual, "congrats, our dept is assigning your book to all intro sections next year" email. This is a big deal for authors (~450 books). Someone's day just got a lot better.
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James Beard media awards in Chicago saturday.
Invitation says attire = ?"Festive"?
I can't even begin to decode that.
I'm going with blue suit, no tie, pocket square, and socks (polka dots)
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Some thoughts from one of those pro-feminist Sociology men who have been conspicuously absent about the Kimmel case
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But before cities redevelop poor areas (before even mentioning future development), protections need to be put in place to prevent racial displacement of the communities who lived through decades of abandonment.
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Happy to announce I've joined the Community Impact Committee of the United Way of Greenville County. Excited to put a little
#PublicSociology
into action
@UWGreenvilleSC
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College rankings are out today.
@FurmanNews
moves up 6 spots to
#46
among liberal arts colleges.
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Public sociology! Signed MOU between
@FurmanU
and
@GreenvilleNews
for a data viz project using geocoded data (census, ACS, racially restrictive covenants). We are going to tell a new data driven story of the economic & demographic history of
#yeahTHATgreenville
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The irony of racial displacement in Greenville, SC is that Black residents today are being priced out of the only places where they were ALLOWED to live during segregation. Restrictive racial covenants help tell that story.
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And when you combine a property bidding war with our nation's racial wealth gap ($177k for white households, $17k for Black), you don't need to know how to play Monopoly to predict how it will turn out.
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Been studying river pilots for 2.5 yrs now. Did some media hits today about Baltimore crash and state of US shipbuilding
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Got my book reviewed in
@SF_Journal
. Got my PhD at
@UNCSociology
15 yrs ago, so this one feels kind of special.
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Otherwise, revitalizing cities with good intentions that are adding nicer and newer amenities to traditionally Black neighborhoods are just going to end up pricing out the same people they are trying to help.
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I’ve done a lot of research on how the Greenville, SC has priced out many Black residents. But what about Black professionals who could afford to stay but voluntarily opt out of the city?
A data thread…
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*New Data* released by Census on Jan 25: Greenville, SC maintains its top position as having the worst racial economic inequality gap among its peer cities in the southeast.
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