Aimee Pozorski is Professor of English and Director of English graduate studies at Central Connecticut State University.

Aimee Pozorski has written an encompassing, illuminating and passionate eye opener for readers enthralled by first- and second-hand memories of the tie-dyed sixties celebrated on t-shirts and by countless tribute bands or by the nostalgic, pastoral interstate-inspired dreams that fueled "white flight" to hastily erected suburbs a decade earlier. Sex, Drugs, and Gentrification shows in detail how the novelists, poets, playwrights, autobiographers, and ethnographers whose work Pozorski discusses expose and explain what Pozorski describes as "uncovered significant knowledge gaps" about displacement, addiction, and inequality in the U.S. during the decades beginning with and following the Great Depression and the Great Migration. Along with several of the texts Pozorski examines, Sex, Drugs and Gentrification calls upon readers to bear "counterwitness" to numerous depredations of governments and private capital in afflicting millions of our fellow Americans. By demonstrating how literary studies offer a vital form of muckraking, Pozorski's work seems destined to join a sub-canon that includes works like Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives, Michael Gold’s Jews Without Money, Langston Hughes's "Ballad of the Landlord," and Michael Harrington's The Other America.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Understanding “Housing Trauma” 1. “Just Look”: Bearing Witness in Harlem to Dispossession and Drug Addiction2. Before and After 1967: Newark’s “Unclaimed Experience” in the Work of Philip Roth3. Addressing the Pittsburgh Renewal Council: Gentrification in August Wilson’s Two Trains Running and Jitney4. Sex, Drugs, & Gentrification: Where the AIDS Crisis and American Housing Crisis Meet 5. “Our Dirtbag Narnia”: Art, Literature, and the Sacred Spaces of Kensington 6. War in the Middle Western States: Traumatic Dislocation and Financial Precarity in Urban Wisconsin7. “the city is better off without you”: Forgotten Brothers Bearing Witness in Memoirs about Katrina 8. Soul Wound: There There and the Future of Trauma TheoryWorks Cited Acknowledgements

Aimee Pozorski is Professor of English and Director of English graduate studies at Central Connecticut State University.

Aimee Pozorski has written an encompassing, illuminating and passionate eye opener for readers enthralled by first- and second-hand memories of the tie-dyed sixties celebrated on t-shirts and by countless tribute bands or by the nostalgic, pastoral interstate-inspired dreams that fueled "white flight" to hastily erected suburbs a decade earlier. Sex, Drugs, and Gentrification shows in detail how the novelists, poets, playwrights, autobiographers, and ethnographers whose work Pozorski discusses expose and explain what Pozorski describes as "uncovered significant knowledge gaps" about displacement, addiction, and inequality in the U.S. during the decades beginning with and following the Great Depression and the Great Migration. Along with several of the texts Pozorski examines, Sex, Drugs and Gentrification calls upon readers to bear "counterwitness" to numerous depredations of governments and private capital in afflicting millions of our fellow Americans. By demonstrating how literary studies offer a vital form of muckraking, Pozorski's work seems destined to join a sub-canon that includes works like Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives, Michael Gold’s Jews Without Money, Langston Hughes's "Ballad of the Landlord," and Michael Harrington's The Other America.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Understanding “Housing Trauma” 1. “Just Look”: Bearing Witness in Harlem to Dispossession and Drug Addiction2. Before and After 1967: Newark’s “Unclaimed Experience” in the Work of Philip Roth3. Addressing the Pittsburgh Renewal Council: Gentrification in August Wilson’s Two Trains Running and Jitney4. Sex, Drugs, & Gentrification: Where the AIDS Crisis and American Housing Crisis Meet 5. “Our Dirtbag Narnia”: Art, Literature, and the Sacred Spaces of Kensington 6. War in the Middle Western States: Traumatic Dislocation and Financial Precarity in Urban Wisconsin7. “the city is better off without you”: Forgotten Brothers Bearing Witness in Memoirs about Katrina 8. Soul Wound: There There and the Future of Trauma TheoryWorks Cited Acknowledgements

Aimee Pozorski is Professor of English and Director of English graduate studies at Central Connecticut State University.

Aimee Pozorski has written an encompassing, illuminating and passionate eye opener for readers enthralled by first- and second-hand memories of the tie-dyed sixties celebrated on t-shirts and by countless tribute bands or by the nostalgic, pastoral interstate-inspired dreams that fueled "white flight" to hastily erected suburbs a decade earlier. Sex, Drugs, and Gentrification shows in detail how the novelists, poets, playwrights, autobiographers, and ethnographers whose work Pozorski discusses expose and explain what Pozorski describes as "uncovered significant knowledge gaps" about displacement, addiction, and inequality in the U.S. during the decades beginning with and following the Great Depression and the Great Migration. Along with several of the texts Pozorski examines, Sex, Drugs and Gentrification calls upon readers to bear "counterwitness" to numerous depredations of governments and private capital in afflicting millions of our fellow Americans. By demonstrating how literary studies offer a vital form of muckraking, Pozorski's work seems destined to join a sub-canon that includes works like Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives, Michael Gold’s Jews Without Money, Langston Hughes's "Ballad of the Landlord," and Michael Harrington's The Other America.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Understanding “Housing Trauma” 1. “Just Look”: Bearing Witness in Harlem to Dispossession and Drug Addiction2. Before and After 1967: Newark’s “Unclaimed Experience” in the Work of Philip Roth3. Addressing the Pittsburgh Renewal Council: Gentrification in August Wilson’s Two Trains Running and Jitney4. Sex, Drugs, & Gentrification: Where the AIDS Crisis and American Housing Crisis Meet 5. “Our Dirtbag Narnia”: Art, Literature, and the Sacred Spaces of Kensington 6. War in the Middle Western States: Traumatic Dislocation and Financial Precarity in Urban Wisconsin7. “the city is better off without you”: Forgotten Brothers Bearing Witness in Memoirs about Katrina 8. Soul Wound: There There and the Future of Trauma TheoryWorks Cited Acknowledgements