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Dr. Jesse Mumm

  • jmumm2@depaul.edu
  • Professional Lecturer
  • Latin American and Latino Studies, Critical Ethnic Studies
  • Faculty
  • Phone: (773) 325-4135
  • 2320 North Kenmore Avenue
    SAC 5-F
    Chicago, IL 60614

Jesse Mumm is a cultural anthropologist interested in gentrification, race and racism, Latino community formations in Chicago, and the intersections of latinidad and whiteness. He is currently the Latinx Historian in a yearlong youth project involving DNA testing, genealogical work, interviewing, and archival research through the Logan Square Neighborhood Association. He has articles in CENTRO Journal and Focaal: The Journal of Global Anthropology, and is collaborating on a comparative GIS mapping project on race, housing and property value, and a digital ethnography of online gentrification discourses in Humboldt Park.​