{"id":997,"date":"2026-03-20T03:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/?page_id=997"},"modified":"2026-03-23T04:52:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T12:52:06","slug":"brandi-t-summers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/brandi-t-summers\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandi T. Summers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section alignfull alignfull getwid-section-content-custom-width\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__wrapper getwid-padding-left-medium getwid-padding-right-medium\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__inner-wrapper\" style=\"max-width:1140px\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__background-holder\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__background\"><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__foreground\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__content\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__inner-content\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-2-columns are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Brandi T. Summers<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-advanced-heading\" style=\"margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-advanced-heading__content\">She\/Her<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Associate Professor, African American and African Diaspora Studies, Columbia University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brandi T. Summers, PhD,&nbsp;is associate professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University.&nbsp;Dr. Summers is author of&nbsp;<em>Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City<\/em>&nbsp;(UNC Press, 2019) and has published articles and essays that analyze blackness, culture, aesthetics, and urbanization, in both scholarly and popular publications.&nbsp;Her current book,&nbsp;<em>Oakland Echoes: Reimagining and Reclaiming the Black City<\/em>, highlights the roots and routes of resistance and reclamation, not only as a response to urban gentrification and related economic policies, but also as a quest to think about the past, present, and future of a Black city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo credit: Clara Perez Medina<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-advanced-spacer\" style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/presenters\/\" style=\"color:#000000\">BACK<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2026\/01\/gWBCyhraQCXY0Ar_IO31iXL7ZjHm5bWOdm8MeW4cPeA-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Brandi T. 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