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- Title
What's Race Got to Do With it? Looking for the Racial Dimensions of Gentrification.
- Authors
KIRKLAND, ELIZABETH
- Abstract
In popular conceptualization, gentrification is often a fundamentally racial transformation: the pre-gentrified neighborhood is inhabited mostly by African Americans or other people of color, and the in-movers are typically white. Many academic depictions of gentrification, on the other hand, either omit reference to the racial dimensions of the phenomenon, or acknowledge race and ethnicity but forego examination. This article describes the scholarship that does exist concerning how the process of gentrification affects persons differentially depending upon their race, but illuminates the absence of a consideration of race in the bulk of analyses of gentrification. Also advanced is evidence that gentrification not only replicates but amplifies the contemporary system of racial residential segregation.
- Subjects
URBAN renewal -- Social aspects; GENTRIFICATION; AFRICAN American neighborhoods; ETHNIC neighborhoods; SOCIAL stratification; PEOPLE of color
- Publication
Western Journal of Black Studies, 2008, Vol 32, Issue 2, p18
- ISSN
0197-4327
- Publication type
Article