C Aujean Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 4048261 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Aujean Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | C Aujean |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oklahoma |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7592-9522 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Building on Grace Lee Boggs
Stadiums have been criticized as large developments with few returns to residents. Yet, most stadiums built since 2000 have garnered little community resistance. Here, we examine the unique case of Oakland, California, in which the Athletics’ baseball stadium siting process was met with significant community resistance. Our study draws on Grace Lee Boggs’s place-based organizing concepts to understand the impact of hyper-local framing on the camp…
Subprime Credit Disparities Across Financial Institutions
On the Outside Looking in
To date, research has not explored the perspectives of Latina/o/x and African American (LAA) students engaging with LAA communities as part of community-engaged courses. To understand their unique perspectives, this qualitative research relies on twenty-two interviews with LAA students from the United States. We found that LAA students perceived that prep-work to enter communities puts white students at the center of the conversations. Once at th…
Examining Racial/Ethnic, Income, and Nativity Disparities in Access to Brick-and-Mortar Financial Institutions
Affordable Housing Through Community Land Trusts (CLTs)
Community Land Trusts (CLTs) are a model of housing that helps to ensure affordability and community stability for low-income households. However, there is a dearth of studies that have examined CLTs on a national scale and what factors are associated with the number of units. This study examined 202 CLTs in the U.S., and we assessed whether CLT characteristics, community socioeconomic factors, and the regulatory and political landscape are assoc…
Practitioner Perceptions of City-Subcontracted Community Organizing
Problem, research strategy, and findings Planning departments use nonprofit subcontractors to increase neighborhood community organizing. However, this is the first study to assess practitioner perceptions of this subcontracting arrangement and its effect on addressing or perpetuating racial inequities in neighborhood community organizing. We used 39 interviews in an exploratory study of Oklahoma City (OK) and a nonprofit that is contracted to do…
Do comprehensive plans plan to prevent displacement? An analysis of four regions experiencing gentrification in the United States
This study assesses whether jurisdictions’ comprehensive or general plans mention gentrification, given that gentrification impacts vulnerable communities’ long-term economic outlook, health, and quality of life. We focus on plans in four regions – Southern California, the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, and Portland, Oregon. In our content analysis, only 23 of 308 jurisdictions that adopted plans between 1990 and 2020 mention gentrificati…
The Role of Police Perception in Shaping Public Meeting Attendance and Implications for Planners
This is the first study to assess how resident perception of the police is associated with public meeting attendance. Using 689 exit poll surveys in Oklahoma City, we conducted regression models to understand factors associated with meeting attendance. Our findings reveal that police perception is related to meeting attendance, especially for younger, college-educated residents who live in non-white precincts. The study also helps to differentiat…
Anti-Racist Futures
In this editorial, we address the concepts of diversity, multiculturalism, equity, racial equity, racism, anti-racism, and intersectionality in urban planning. Despite their significance, these concepts have not received sufficient attention in the mainstream planning discourse. We argue that prioritizing anti-racism is essential for fostering effective anti-racist praxis in planning, leading to institutional and structural change. The special is…
Combining social network analysis and geographic information system for communication research
Social Network Analysis and Geographic Information Systems can be combined and applied to communication research to better understand how communication networks are associated with spatial or city characteristics. We use a case study of communication networks of immigrant church members (N = 178) in New Jersey to test theories of spatial versus strategic assimilation, visualize social networks, and city racial composition. The findings demonstrat…
Outsourcing Neighborhood Planning Processes? A Case Study of a Nonprofit in the City of Oklahoma City
Nonprofits are key in local community development and often work in tandem with or against municipal governments in neighborhood planning. We focus on a unique case of a local government that largely contracts neighborhood planning processes to a nonprofit in Oklahoma City. Using thirty-nine interviews with municipal staff, nonprofit employees, and stakeholders, we examine the benefits and consequences of this contracting relationship on particip…
A Typology of Local and State Government Responses to Racism
We examine local and state government responses to anti-Asian hate during the initial months of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the United States. Formal state and municipal government statements and websites were examined for fifty states and 104 of the largest municipalities using critical discourse analysis and racial formation theory to understand how government agencies racialized Asian Americans and reacted to their responsibility to…
Who Gets Hired at the Top? The Academic Caste System Theory in the Planning Academy
This study is the first to examine detailed faculty demographics and impacts of elite hiring networks in the planning academy. Institutional prestige significantly shapes faculty placements. Nearly half of planning faculty graduated from Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Cornell, and University of North Carolina (UNC)-Chapel Hill. Faculty are predominantly hired in similar or lowe…
Fintech’s relationship with subprime lending in immigrant gateway metropolitan areas
Financial technology lending (fintech) is a subset of the mortgage industry characterized by all-online application processes and the inclusion of non-traditional applicant data in underwriting decisions. While national studies suggest that fintech lenders mimic traditional lenders and distribute subprime loans to minority borrowers and neighborhoods at higher rates than to white borrowers and neighborhoods, these studies exclude regional differe…
A Primer on Asian Americans and Asian American Studies for Public Administration
This article serves as an introduction for public administration and public institutions about Asian Americans. The experiences of Asian Americans and the field of Asian American Studies can inform a more nuanced understanding of how racial categories are constructed and community-led efforts that lead to institutional change. Asian Americans offer important insights for public administration, including how to contend with intra- and intergroup d…
Feeling Like an “Odd Duck”
Problem, research strategy, and findings African American/Black and Hispanic/Latin/o/a/x practitioners are underrepresented in the planning profession. In this study we examine these practitioners’ experience with the climate for diversity in their workplaces. Drawing from a survey of 3,005 APA members, we show that African American/Black and Hispanic/Latin/o/a/x practitioners experience significantly higher rates of bias and discrimination than …
“Like a Fish Out of Water”
Problem, research strategy, and findings Many planning practitioners, faculty, and students have worked to address diversity and inclusion. However, only a few studies have examined specifically the ways in which African American and Latinx students perceive and experience instruction related to racial/ethnic diversity and the overall diversity climate as part of their urban planning education. This study, conducted by the Association of Collegia…
Exploring the nexus between social vulnerability, built environment, and the prevalence of Covid-19
Learning from Asian Americans
This commentary serves as an introduction for the planning academe about Asian Americans and how an understanding of their racialization can contribute to anti-racist frameworks in planning. Asian Americans are a unique group comprised of diverse communities with a long history in the country. Yet, most research about Asian Americans exists outside of mainstream planning scholarship. Asian Americans offer several insights for planning, including …
Impacts of Multiscale Racial Concentration on Neighborhood Foreclosure Risk in Immigrant Gateway Metropolitan Areas
Scholars define emerging gateway metropolitan areas in the United States as regions in which immigrant communities settled after the 1990s. Historically, immigrant and minority neighborhoods are characterized by exclusion from conventional sources of financial capital––factors which compound risks associated with residential instability and foreclosure. Yet, these new gateways may offer protection from foreclosure due to the relative affordabilit…
Beyond Recruitment
American universities are becoming globalized in curriculum and enrollment and benefit from international students who contribute to diversity. As the share of international students in planning programs has risen, little is known about their experiences beyond recruitment and how experiences as a “minoritized” group compare to domestic students of color. We report findings from interviews with graduate students in U.S. planning programs and comp…
Evolving Activism in an Anti-Immigrant Administration
Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI)-serving nonprofits were at the forefront of pro-immigrant advocacy during the Trump Administration in the midst of sudden changes in policy that caused extreme turmoil for AANHPIs. This study examines how these federal sociopolitical factors shaped nonprofit activism and finances for Los Angeles AANHPI organizations in 2017. Using interviews, I found that nonprofits could innovate in …
Working towards a better future for ourselves”
Homeownership remains the largest asset for families of color and a pathway for socioeconomic opportunities. Latinos and Asian Americans are also the fastest growing groups in the U.S. Yet, little is known about their neighborhood selection and homebuying process. This pilot study examines differences between middle-class Latino and Asian neighborhood selection into Latino, Asian, and White neighborhoods using 36 interviews. The findings demonstr…
All Talk No Walk
This paper summarizes findings from a nationwide survey of degree-seeking urban planning students regarding the climate for diversity within their degree programs. This study examines urban planning student experiences in the classroom, with communities, and with professionals as they are trained to become planning practitioners. From May to October 2016, we surveyed 451 students and conducted in-depth interviews with 27 students. Our results sho…
Where Are We Going? Where Have We Been
This paper summarizes findings from a nationwide survey of degree-seeking urban planning students regarding the climate for diversity within their degree programs. This study examines interactions within the classroom, with faculty, with peers, and with professional planners. From May to October 2016, we surveyed 451 students and conducted in-depth interviews with 25 students. Our results show that while the majority of students report a positive…
Where Are We Going? Where Have We Been
This paper summarizes findings from a nationwide survey of degree-seeking urban planning students regarding the climate for diversity within their degree programs. This study examines interactions within the classroom, with faculty, with peers, and with professional planners. From May to October 2016, we surveyed 451 students and conducted in-depth interviews with 25 students. Our results show that while the majority of students report a positive…
Who Gets Hired at the Top? The Academic Caste System Theory in the Planning Academy
This study is the first to examine detailed faculty demographics and impacts of elite hiring networks in the planning academy. Institutional prestige significantly shapes faculty placements. Nearly half of planning faculty graduated from Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Cornell, and University of North Carolina (UNC)-Chapel Hill. Faculty are predominantly hired in similar or lowe…
Fintech’s relationship with subprime lending in immigrant gateway metropolitan areas
Financial technology lending (fintech) is a subset of the mortgage industry characterized by all-online application processes and the inclusion of non-traditional applicant data in underwriting decisions. While national studies suggest that fintech lenders mimic traditional lenders and distribute subprime loans to minority borrowers and neighborhoods at higher rates than to white borrowers and neighborhoods, these studies exclude regional differe…
Impacts of Multiscale Racial Concentration on Neighborhood Foreclosure Risk in Immigrant Gateway Metropolitan Areas
Scholars define emerging gateway metropolitan areas in the United States as regions in which immigrant communities settled after the 1990s. Historically, immigrant and minority neighborhoods are characterized by exclusion from conventional sources of financial capital––factors which compound risks associated with residential instability and foreclosure. Yet, these new gateways may offer protection from foreclosure due to the relative affordabilit…
Working towards a better future for ourselves”
Homeownership remains the largest asset for families of color and a pathway for socioeconomic opportunities. Latinos and Asian Americans are also the fastest growing groups in the U.S. Yet, little is known about their neighborhood selection and homebuying process. This pilot study examines differences between middle-class Latino and Asian neighborhood selection into Latino, Asian, and White neighborhoods using 36 interviews. The findings demonstr…
A Primer on Asian Americans and Asian American Studies for Public Administration
This article serves as an introduction for public administration and public institutions about Asian Americans. The experiences of Asian Americans and the field of Asian American Studies can inform a more nuanced understanding of how racial categories are constructed and community-led efforts that lead to institutional change. Asian Americans offer important insights for public administration, including how to contend with intra- and intergroup d…
Evolving Activism in an Anti-Immigrant Administration
Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI)-serving nonprofits were at the forefront of pro-immigrant advocacy during the Trump Administration in the midst of sudden changes in policy that caused extreme turmoil for AANHPIs. This study examines how these federal sociopolitical factors shaped nonprofit activism and finances for Los Angeles AANHPI organizations in 2017. Using interviews, I found that nonprofits could innovate in …
Beyond the “Haves and Have Nots”
This study demonstrates how multiple methods can inform national survey data collection efforts for Indigenous populations using Pacific Islanders as a case study. National data surveys are oftentimes limited in how they collect data on small populations due to data suppression, and they lack nuance in how they aggregate distinct populations. I conduct linear regression models of U.S. Census data to demonstrate that Pacific Islanders lag behind W…
All Talk No Walk
This paper summarizes findings from a nationwide survey of degree-seeking urban planning students regarding the climate for diversity within their degree programs. This study examines urban planning student experiences in the classroom, with communities, and with professionals as they are trained to become planning practitioners. From May to October 2016, we surveyed 451 students and conducted in-depth interviews with 27 students. Our results sho…
Where Are We Going? Where Have We Been
This paper summarizes findings from a nationwide survey of degree-seeking urban planning students regarding the climate for diversity within their degree programs. This study examines interactions within the classroom, with faculty, with peers, and with professional planners. From May to October 2016, we surveyed 451 students and conducted in-depth interviews with 25 students. Our results show that while the majority of students report a positive…
Working towards a better future for ourselves”
Homeownership remains the largest asset for families of color and a pathway for socioeconomic opportunities. Latinos and Asian Americans are also the fastest growing groups in the U.S. Yet, little is known about their neighborhood selection and homebuying process. This pilot study examines differences between middle-class Latino and Asian neighborhood selection into Latino, Asian, and White neighborhoods using 36 interviews. The findings demonstr…
Impacts of Multiscale Racial Concentration on Neighborhood Foreclosure Risk in Immigrant Gateway Metropolitan Areas
Scholars define emerging gateway metropolitan areas in the United States as regions in which immigrant communities settled after the 1990s. Historically, immigrant and minority neighborhoods are characterized by exclusion from conventional sources of financial capital––factors which compound risks associated with residential instability and foreclosure. Yet, these new gateways may offer protection from foreclosure due to the relative affordabilit…
Beyond Recruitment
American universities are becoming globalized in curriculum and enrollment and benefit from international students who contribute to diversity. As the share of international students in planning programs has risen, little is known about their experiences beyond recruitment and how experiences as a “minoritized” group compare to domestic students of color. We report findings from interviews with graduate students in U.S. planning programs and comp…
Evolving Activism in an Anti-Immigrant Administration
Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI)-serving nonprofits were at the forefront of pro-immigrant advocacy during the Trump Administration in the midst of sudden changes in policy that caused extreme turmoil for AANHPIs. This study examines how these federal sociopolitical factors shaped nonprofit activism and finances for Los Angeles AANHPI organizations in 2017. Using interviews, I found that nonprofits could innovate in …
Feeling Like an “Odd Duck”
Problem, research strategy, and findings African American/Black and Hispanic/Latin/o/a/x practitioners are underrepresented in the planning profession. In this study we examine these practitioners’ experience with the climate for diversity in their workplaces. Drawing from a survey of 3,005 APA members, we show that African American/Black and Hispanic/Latin/o/a/x practitioners experience significantly higher rates of bias and discrimination than …
“Like a Fish Out of Water”
Problem, research strategy, and findings Many planning practitioners, faculty, and students have worked to address diversity and inclusion. However, only a few studies have examined specifically the ways in which African American and Latinx students perceive and experience instruction related to racial/ethnic diversity and the overall diversity climate as part of their urban planning education. This study, conducted by the Association of Collegia…
Exploring the nexus between social vulnerability, built environment, and the prevalence of Covid-19
Learning from Asian Americans
This commentary serves as an introduction for the planning academe about Asian Americans and how an understanding of their racialization can contribute to anti-racist frameworks in planning. Asian Americans are a unique group comprised of diverse communities with a long history in the country. Yet, most research about Asian Americans exists outside of mainstream planning scholarship. Asian Americans offer several insights for planning, including …
Combining social network analysis and geographic information system for communication research
Social Network Analysis and Geographic Information Systems can be combined and applied to communication research to better understand how communication networks are associated with spatial or city characteristics. We use a case study of communication networks of immigrant church members (N = 178) in New Jersey to test theories of spatial versus strategic assimilation, visualize social networks, and city racial composition. The findings demonstrat…
Outsourcing Neighborhood Planning Processes? A Case Study of a Nonprofit in the City of Oklahoma City
Nonprofits are key in local community development and often work in tandem with or against municipal governments in neighborhood planning. We focus on a unique case of a local government that largely contracts neighborhood planning processes to a nonprofit in Oklahoma City. Using thirty-nine interviews with municipal staff, nonprofit employees, and stakeholders, we examine the benefits and consequences of this contracting relationship on particip…
A Typology of Local and State Government Responses to Racism
We examine local and state government responses to anti-Asian hate during the initial months of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the United States. Formal state and municipal government statements and websites were examined for fifty states and 104 of the largest municipalities using critical discourse analysis and racial formation theory to understand how government agencies racialized Asian Americans and reacted to their responsibility to…
Who Gets Hired at the Top? The Academic Caste System Theory in the Planning Academy
This study is the first to examine detailed faculty demographics and impacts of elite hiring networks in the planning academy. Institutional prestige significantly shapes faculty placements. Nearly half of planning faculty graduated from Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Cornell, and University of North Carolina (UNC)-Chapel Hill. Faculty are predominantly hired in similar or lowe…
Fintech’s relationship with subprime lending in immigrant gateway metropolitan areas
Financial technology lending (fintech) is a subset of the mortgage industry characterized by all-online application processes and the inclusion of non-traditional applicant data in underwriting decisions. While national studies suggest that fintech lenders mimic traditional lenders and distribute subprime loans to minority borrowers and neighborhoods at higher rates than to white borrowers and neighborhoods, these studies exclude regional differe…
A Primer on Asian Americans and Asian American Studies for Public Administration
This article serves as an introduction for public administration and public institutions about Asian Americans. The experiences of Asian Americans and the field of Asian American Studies can inform a more nuanced understanding of how racial categories are constructed and community-led efforts that lead to institutional change. Asian Americans offer important insights for public administration, including how to contend with intra- and intergroup d…
Anti-Racist Futures
In this editorial, we address the concepts of diversity, multiculturalism, equity, racial equity, racism, anti-racism, and intersectionality in urban planning. Despite their significance, these concepts have not received sufficient attention in the mainstream planning discourse. We argue that prioritizing anti-racism is essential for fostering effective anti-racist praxis in planning, leading to institutional and structural change. The special is…
Affordable Housing Through Community Land Trusts (CLTs)
Community Land Trusts (CLTs) are a model of housing that helps to ensure affordability and community stability for low-income households. However, there is a dearth of studies that have examined CLTs on a national scale and what factors are associated with the number of units. This study examined 202 CLTs in the U.S., and we assessed whether CLT characteristics, community socioeconomic factors, and the regulatory and political landscape are assoc…
Practitioner Perceptions of City-Subcontracted Community Organizing
Problem, research strategy, and findings Planning departments use nonprofit subcontractors to increase neighborhood community organizing. However, this is the first study to assess practitioner perceptions of this subcontracting arrangement and its effect on addressing or perpetuating racial inequities in neighborhood community organizing. We used 39 interviews in an exploratory study of Oklahoma City (OK) and a nonprofit that is contracted to do…
Do comprehensive plans plan to prevent displacement? An analysis of four regions experiencing gentrification in the United States
This study assesses whether jurisdictions’ comprehensive or general plans mention gentrification, given that gentrification impacts vulnerable communities’ long-term economic outlook, health, and quality of life. We focus on plans in four regions – Southern California, the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, and Portland, Oregon. In our content analysis, only 23 of 308 jurisdictions that adopted plans between 1990 and 2020 mention gentrificati…
The Role of Police Perception in Shaping Public Meeting Attendance and Implications for Planners
This is the first study to assess how resident perception of the police is associated with public meeting attendance. Using 689 exit poll surveys in Oklahoma City, we conducted regression models to understand factors associated with meeting attendance. Our findings reveal that police perception is related to meeting attendance, especially for younger, college-educated residents who live in non-white precincts. The study also helps to differentiat…
On the Outside Looking in
To date, research has not explored the perspectives of Latina/o/x and African American (LAA) students engaging with LAA communities as part of community-engaged courses. To understand their unique perspectives, this qualitative research relies on twenty-two interviews with LAA students from the United States. We found that LAA students perceived that prep-work to enter communities puts white students at the center of the conversations. Once at th…
Examining Racial/Ethnic, Income, and Nativity Disparities in Access to Brick-and-Mortar Financial Institutions
Building on Grace Lee Boggs
Stadiums have been criticized as large developments with few returns to residents. Yet, most stadiums built since 2000 have garnered little community resistance. Here, we examine the unique case of Oakland, California, in which the Athletics’ baseball stadium siting process was met with significant community resistance. Our study draws on Grace Lee Boggs’s place-based organizing concepts to understand the impact of hyper-local framing on the camp…
Political science (20 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (12 works) · Geography (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Ethnic group (9 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Public relations (8 works)