Zawadi Rucks‐ahidiana
Biographic Data
| ID | 3604284 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zawadi Rucks‐ahidiana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zawadi |
| FAMILY NAME | Rucks‐ahidiana |
| SIGNATURE | AHIDIANA Z R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6973-5043 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 139 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Growth Machine as an Agent of Racial Capitalism: Gentrification Coverage and the News Media
The growth machine theory uses a political economy approach to explain why city politics center development interests. We argue that the growth machine operates not only to profit from capitalism, but from White supremacy. To capture this dimension of power and oppression, we theorize the growth machine as an agent of racial capitalism and illustrate it through a study of news media’s assessments of gentrification in two cities. Our findings demo…
Ambitious ideals, realistic expectations: How prior experiences with structures moderate the goals of Section 8 voucher holders through frames
The Philadelphia Negro at 125 Years: A Critical Commemoration
On the occasion of the book’s quasquicentennial, our special issue brings together four articles that show the continuing relevance of W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study (1899). The contributors illustrate how a fresh perspective on the theoretical insights that Du Bois began to develop in The Philadelphia Negro deepen understanding of contemporary topics such as gentrification, policing, residential mobility, and the rhyth…
Defensive Development Against Disinvestment: Early Black Gentrification in the History of Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Studies of early gentrification have largely focused on cases of White gentrifiers in predominately White and Latinx low-income neighborhoods, which has overlooked the role of the Black middle-class and the presence of Black gentrifiers in early gentrification. In this article, we document the role of the Black middle-class in early gentrification in 1970s Fort Greene, Brooklyn, demonstrating their role in a “defensive development” strategy to pr…
Controlling Images of Neighborhoods in Gentrification Coverage
Prior literature has largely used the concept of “controlling images” to explain how the news media and other institutions use racialized and gendered stereotypes to control marginalized groups. This article extends the concept of controlling images to neighborhoods using 583 newspaper articles about gentrification in San Francisco. Using qualitative and spatial analysis, I demonstrate how controlling images exist in media through representations…
Transgressing the Academy
Contextual Text Coding: A Mixed-methods Approach for Large-scale Textual Data
With the growing availability of large-scale text-based data sets, there is an increasing need for an accessible and systematic way to analyze qualitative texts. This article introduces and details the contextual text coding (CTC) method as a mixed-methods approach to large-scale qualitative data analysis. The method is particularly useful for complex text, textual data characterized by context-specific meanings and a lack of consistent terminolo…
Race and the Financial Toolkit: Bridging Cultural Theories to Understand Behavior and Decision Making in the Racial Wealth Gap
In this article, I theorize the 'financial toolkit' or the repertoires that inform financial decision-making processes and explain why and what racial differences we should expect. I argue that while prior literature has focused on financial repertoires with large racial differences, we should expect both similar and distinct financial repertoires by race given that social networks and neighborhoods of residences are racially segregated, but main…
Theorizing Gentrification as a Process of Racial Capitalism
Academics largely define gentrification based on changes in the class demographics of neighborhood residents from predominately low-income to middle-class. This ignores that gentrification always occurs in spaces defined by both class and race. In this article, I use the lens of racial capitalism to theorize gentrification as a racialized, profit-accumulating process, integrating the perspective that spaces are always racialized to class-centered…
Racial composition and trajectories of gentrification in the United States
Prior studies suggest that middle-income Americans are more likely to move to predominately white, low-income neighbourhoods than predominately black or Latino neighbourhoods. Given that black and Latino neighbourhoods are, on average, lower income and higher in poverty than low-income, white neighbourhoods, it may be that gentrification in these neighbourhoods is a different kind of change than that occurring in predominately white neighbourhood…
Theory on the other Side of the Veil: Reckoning with Legacies of Anti-Blackness and Teaching in Social Theory
Classical Theory courses in the U.S. present a history of our discipline grounded in the works of Durkheim, Marx, and Weber, defining "classic" by space and time, giving pre-World War II Europe credit for creating the foundation of contemporary sociology. While past critiques of this canon have argued for expanding the geographic bounds outside of Europe, these efforts still ground the origins of social theory in a time period of racial exclusion…
Race and the Geography of Opportunity in the Post-Prison Labor Market
Research on racial disparities in post-prison employment has primarily focused on the differential effects of stigma on blacks and whites, but we otherwise know little about racial differences. This paper examines racial differences in post-prison employment by industry and geography. We find that the formerly incarcerated are most likely to find work in a small number of 'felon-friendly' industries with formerly incarcerated whites having higher…
How Relationships Support and Inform the Transition to Community College
Cultural implications of historical exclusion for the racial wealth gap: How ideal financial behavior varies by race
Urban Poverty
Most research on urban poverty focuses on racial and ethnic minorities living in segregated, high‐poverty neighborhoods in central cities and inner‐ring suburbs. Urban poverty research attempts to understand the roots of dilemmas such as crime and delinquency, unemployment, low levels of education, and single motherhood, as well as the causes and consequences of spatially concentrated poverty and the transmission of poverty over generations. Due …
Qualitative Spaces: Integrating Spatial Analysis for a Mixed Methods Approach
Spatial context matters for qualitative social science inquiry. Yet, the explicit and consistent integration of these analyses has largely been segregated to the spatial sciences, geography and urban planning. In this article, we present a theoretical argument for integrating spatial data in qualitative inquiry and strategies for how to triangulate spatial and qualitative data. We argue that including spatial analyses in inquiries of social pheno…
Theorizing Gentrification as a Process of Racial Capitalism
Academics largely define gentrification based on changes in the class demographics of neighborhood residents from predominately low-income to middle-class. This ignores that gentrification always occurs in spaces defined by both class and race. In this article, I use the lens of racial capitalism to theorize gentrification as a racialized, profit-accumulating process, integrating the perspective that spaces are always racialized to class-centered…
Racial composition and trajectories of gentrification in the United States
Prior studies suggest that middle-income Americans are more likely to move to predominately white, low-income neighbourhoods than predominately black or Latino neighbourhoods. Given that black and Latino neighbourhoods are, on average, lower income and higher in poverty than low-income, white neighbourhoods, it may be that gentrification in these neighbourhoods is a different kind of change than that occurring in predominately white neighbourhood…
Race and the Geography of Opportunity in the Post-Prison Labor Market
Research on racial disparities in post-prison employment has primarily focused on the differential effects of stigma on blacks and whites, but we otherwise know little about racial differences. This paper examines racial differences in post-prison employment by industry and geography. We find that the formerly incarcerated are most likely to find work in a small number of 'felon-friendly' industries with formerly incarcerated whites having higher…
Qualitative Spaces: Integrating Spatial Analysis for a Mixed Methods Approach
Spatial context matters for qualitative social science inquiry. Yet, the explicit and consistent integration of these analyses has largely been segregated to the spatial sciences, geography and urban planning. In this article, we present a theoretical argument for integrating spatial data in qualitative inquiry and strategies for how to triangulate spatial and qualitative data. We argue that including spatial analyses in inquiries of social pheno…
Theory on the other Side of the Veil: Reckoning with Legacies of Anti-Blackness and Teaching in Social Theory
Classical Theory courses in the U.S. present a history of our discipline grounded in the works of Durkheim, Marx, and Weber, defining "classic" by space and time, giving pre-World War II Europe credit for creating the foundation of contemporary sociology. While past critiques of this canon have argued for expanding the geographic bounds outside of Europe, these efforts still ground the origins of social theory in a time period of racial exclusion…
Transgressing the Academy
Contextual Text Coding: A Mixed-methods Approach for Large-scale Textual Data
With the growing availability of large-scale text-based data sets, there is an increasing need for an accessible and systematic way to analyze qualitative texts. This article introduces and details the contextual text coding (CTC) method as a mixed-methods approach to large-scale qualitative data analysis. The method is particularly useful for complex text, textual data characterized by context-specific meanings and a lack of consistent terminolo…
Controlling Images of Neighborhoods in Gentrification Coverage
Prior literature has largely used the concept of “controlling images” to explain how the news media and other institutions use racialized and gendered stereotypes to control marginalized groups. This article extends the concept of controlling images to neighborhoods using 583 newspaper articles about gentrification in San Francisco. Using qualitative and spatial analysis, I demonstrate how controlling images exist in media through representations…
Race and the Financial Toolkit: Bridging Cultural Theories to Understand Behavior and Decision Making in the Racial Wealth Gap
In this article, I theorize the 'financial toolkit' or the repertoires that inform financial decision-making processes and explain why and what racial differences we should expect. I argue that while prior literature has focused on financial repertoires with large racial differences, we should expect both similar and distinct financial repertoires by race given that social networks and neighborhoods of residences are racially segregated, but main…
Cultural implications of historical exclusion for the racial wealth gap: How ideal financial behavior varies by race
Urban Poverty
Most research on urban poverty focuses on racial and ethnic minorities living in segregated, high‐poverty neighborhoods in central cities and inner‐ring suburbs. Urban poverty research attempts to understand the roots of dilemmas such as crime and delinquency, unemployment, low levels of education, and single motherhood, as well as the causes and consequences of spatially concentrated poverty and the transmission of poverty over generations. Due …
Qualitative Spaces: Integrating Spatial Analysis for a Mixed Methods Approach
Spatial context matters for qualitative social science inquiry. Yet, the explicit and consistent integration of these analyses has largely been segregated to the spatial sciences, geography and urban planning. In this article, we present a theoretical argument for integrating spatial data in qualitative inquiry and strategies for how to triangulate spatial and qualitative data. We argue that including spatial analyses in inquiries of social pheno…
Cultural implications of historical exclusion for the racial wealth gap: How ideal financial behavior varies by race
How Relationships Support and Inform the Transition to Community College
Theorizing Gentrification as a Process of Racial Capitalism
Academics largely define gentrification based on changes in the class demographics of neighborhood residents from predominately low-income to middle-class. This ignores that gentrification always occurs in spaces defined by both class and race. In this article, I use the lens of racial capitalism to theorize gentrification as a racialized, profit-accumulating process, integrating the perspective that spaces are always racialized to class-centered…
Racial composition and trajectories of gentrification in the United States
Prior studies suggest that middle-income Americans are more likely to move to predominately white, low-income neighbourhoods than predominately black or Latino neighbourhoods. Given that black and Latino neighbourhoods are, on average, lower income and higher in poverty than low-income, white neighbourhoods, it may be that gentrification in these neighbourhoods is a different kind of change than that occurring in predominately white neighbourhood…
Theory on the other Side of the Veil: Reckoning with Legacies of Anti-Blackness and Teaching in Social Theory
Classical Theory courses in the U.S. present a history of our discipline grounded in the works of Durkheim, Marx, and Weber, defining "classic" by space and time, giving pre-World War II Europe credit for creating the foundation of contemporary sociology. While past critiques of this canon have argued for expanding the geographic bounds outside of Europe, these efforts still ground the origins of social theory in a time period of racial exclusion…
Race and the Geography of Opportunity in the Post-Prison Labor Market
Research on racial disparities in post-prison employment has primarily focused on the differential effects of stigma on blacks and whites, but we otherwise know little about racial differences. This paper examines racial differences in post-prison employment by industry and geography. We find that the formerly incarcerated are most likely to find work in a small number of 'felon-friendly' industries with formerly incarcerated whites having higher…
Race and the Financial Toolkit: Bridging Cultural Theories to Understand Behavior and Decision Making in the Racial Wealth Gap
In this article, I theorize the 'financial toolkit' or the repertoires that inform financial decision-making processes and explain why and what racial differences we should expect. I argue that while prior literature has focused on financial repertoires with large racial differences, we should expect both similar and distinct financial repertoires by race given that social networks and neighborhoods of residences are racially segregated, but main…
Transgressing the Academy
Contextual Text Coding: A Mixed-methods Approach for Large-scale Textual Data
With the growing availability of large-scale text-based data sets, there is an increasing need for an accessible and systematic way to analyze qualitative texts. This article introduces and details the contextual text coding (CTC) method as a mixed-methods approach to large-scale qualitative data analysis. The method is particularly useful for complex text, textual data characterized by context-specific meanings and a lack of consistent terminolo…
Ambitious ideals, realistic expectations: How prior experiences with structures moderate the goals of Section 8 voucher holders through frames
The Philadelphia Negro at 125 Years: A Critical Commemoration
On the occasion of the book’s quasquicentennial, our special issue brings together four articles that show the continuing relevance of W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study (1899). The contributors illustrate how a fresh perspective on the theoretical insights that Du Bois began to develop in The Philadelphia Negro deepen understanding of contemporary topics such as gentrification, policing, residential mobility, and the rhyth…
Defensive Development Against Disinvestment: Early Black Gentrification in the History of Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Studies of early gentrification have largely focused on cases of White gentrifiers in predominately White and Latinx low-income neighborhoods, which has overlooked the role of the Black middle-class and the presence of Black gentrifiers in early gentrification. In this article, we document the role of the Black middle-class in early gentrification in 1970s Fort Greene, Brooklyn, demonstrating their role in a “defensive development” strategy to pr…
Controlling Images of Neighborhoods in Gentrification Coverage
Prior literature has largely used the concept of “controlling images” to explain how the news media and other institutions use racialized and gendered stereotypes to control marginalized groups. This article extends the concept of controlling images to neighborhoods using 583 newspaper articles about gentrification in San Francisco. Using qualitative and spatial analysis, I demonstrate how controlling images exist in media through representations…
The Growth Machine as an Agent of Racial Capitalism: Gentrification Coverage and the News Media
The growth machine theory uses a political economy approach to explain why city politics center development interests. We argue that the growth machine operates not only to profit from capitalism, but from White supremacy. To capture this dimension of power and oppression, we theorize the growth machine as an agent of racial capitalism and illustrate it through a study of news media’s assessments of gentrification in two cities. Our findings demo…
Sociology (12 works) · Economics (9 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (6 works) · Gentrification (5 works) · Law (5 works)