Biography

Dr. Alfredo Huante is a 2020-2021 UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. In his first book manuscript, Alfredo examines how racial formation is central to gentrification discussion and debates. In majority minority places experiencing gentrification, like barrios, race and racism are often overlooked or minimized as part of these processes. This book argues that conceptualizing gentrification as a racial project is necessary to understand how policies and practices advancing gentrification maintain and advance racism. Drawing on archival, ethnographic, and interview data collected in and about the Boyle Heights neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, Alfredo reveals how race and racism adapt to maintain racial inequality even as neighborhoods- and cities- become more racially diverse.

Previously, Alfredo held a position as a postdoctoral research fellow under the Interdisciplinary Research Incubator for Study of (In)Equality (IRISE) at the University of Denver. In addition to a Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Southern California, Alfredo also holds a master’s in urban planning from UCLA. He is also a proud community college transfer student from Los Angeles Harbor College.