Davarian Baldwin serves as Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies at Trinity College and is author of In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities and Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life.

July 8, 2021

Phenomenal Works

Phenomenal Works: Davarian Baldwin

Black metropolis

In his new book, In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities, Davarian Baldwin identifies an “increasingly parasitic” relationship between universities and the cities they occupy.