Land of Opportunity
Anti-Black and Settler Logics in the Gentrification of Detroit
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18993493 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Quizar (0000-0002-3594-6379, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 113-133 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Indian Culture and Research Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0161-6463 • E-ISSN: 0161-6463 |
| Publisher | California Digital Library (CDL) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.17953/aicrj.43.2.quizar |
| OpenAlex | W3024406493 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
It is an increasingly common trope in anti-gentrification activism to claim that gentrification of Black neighborhoods is a form of settler colonialism. Although Native critics have pushed back against these metaphors as abstractions of, and false equivalencies to, the concrete conditions of settler colonialism, gentrifying discourse frequently draws on the language and logic of settler colonialism in narratives about the city of Detroit. In this article, I ask what it means that terms and logic that are being applied to a predominantly Black city were, and are, also used to rationalize and structure theft of land from Native Americans. Proposing that shifting white interests in Black land have led to “borrowing” of longstanding logics used to dispossess Native peoples, I argue that the reiteration of settler-colonial logics in Detroit to explain and justify gentrification manifestly both validates land grabs in the city and further erases the claims of both Black and Indigenous peoples to Detroit
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnology · Gentrification · Indigenous · Literature · Narrative · Political economy · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Urban Planning and Governance · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · Ecology
Making Waves
Local work on global educational justice
The racial and colonial dimensions of gentrification
Colonial Logics in Rust Belt Revitalization
Eradicating Anti-Black Logics in Schools
Possibilities for decolonizing food planning
The nature of “wilderness” in the settler-colonial suburb
They Don't Feel Like This Is Their Place Anymore
You Do Have to Live Like This
Gentrification as (settler) colonialism? Moving beyond metaphorical linkages
Regulating Improvement
An Anthropology of White Supremacy in Detroit
A sandwich effect
Race, Property, and Erasure in the Rust Belt
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |