John J Betancur
Biographic Data
| ID | 75949 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John J Betancur |
| GIVEN NAMES | John J |
| FAMILY NAME | Betancur |
| SIGNATURE | BETANCUR J J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8940-1828 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 170 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Who owns this neighborhood? The struggle for home in Latino Pilsen, Chicago
Revisiting Medellin's Governance Arrangement After the Dust Settled
Governance is a polysemic prescription for contemporary government and at an urban level has been instrumental in some radical and often striking reshaping of cities. This paper examines the interests and power structures behind those changes through the critical examination of the case of Medellin, Colombia, until recently a model of “good governance,” internationally acknowledged for its early millennium transformation from “murder capital to m…
Whose voice do community development organizations speak? The trajectory of CBOs in Latino Pilsen in Chicago
Most of the literature and other publications on CBOs assume that they speak the voices and pursue the interests of the communities they claim to represent. While acknowledging the transformative work of some of them, recent studies have portrayed CBOs as forces of social control and poverty management. This paper reports the findings of a study examining the trajectory of CBOs in Pilsen, a Latino community in Chicago, through a historical-geneal…
Urban Neighborhoods in a New Era: Revitalization Politics in the Postindustrial City
Black-brown solidarity: Racial politics in the new Gulf South by John D. Márquez
Gentrification in Latin America: Overview and Critical Analysis
This paper offers a critical review and interpretation of gentrification in Latin American cities. Applying a flexible methodology, it examines enabling conditions associated with societal regime change and local contingencies to determine its presence, nature, extent, and possibilities. Questioning the uncritical transfer of constructs such as gentrification from the Global North to the Global South, the paper advocates analyses of mediating str…
How much control do Latinos and African Americans have of their mutual relations
Reinventing Race, Reinventing Racism
Reinventing Race, Reinventing Racism not only provides fresh theoretical insights into the new forms of race and racism, it also provides evidence of and policy solutions to address these seemingly intractable forms of discrimination and racial disparities. These issues are tackled by some of the nation’s most prominent race and public policy scholars. In addition, the volume has contributions by some of the most innovative up-and-coming voices t…
Emerging Intersections: Race, Class, and Gender in Theory, Policy, and Practice
Book Review| July 01 2012 Emerging Intersections: Race, Class, and Gender in Theory, Policy, and Practice Emerging Intersections: Race, Class, and Gender in Theory, Policy, and Practice. Edited by Bonnie Thornton Dill and Ruth Enid Zambrana. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2009. xvii + 306 pp. Tables, index, and bibliography. $24.95 (paper). John J. Betancur John J. Betancur Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google …
The 2006–2007 immigration mobilizations and community capacity: The experience of Chicago
Gentrification and Community Fabric in Chicago
Critical authors of gentrification point to its deleterious impacts on displaced residents. Research on the nature or actual forms of impacts has not advanced much, however. This paper attempts to specify impacts on low-income racial/ethnic groups (Latinos in particular) in five Chicago neighbourhoods, with a particular focus on neighbourhood-based fabrics of support and advancement. Limited in their mobility and exchange value resources, lower-i…
An Expression of Appreciation
Latino Crossings: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans and the Politics of Race and Citizenship – John J. Betancur
Community Development in Chicago: From Harold Washington to Richard M. Daley
This article examines the transformation of community development in Chicago in the last three decades from a predominately grass roots movement for social change to a much smaller and fragmented one led by professionalized groups. It focuses on Harold Washington’s and Richard M. Daley’s mayoral regimes and the ways they helped to shape the context and implementation of community development. The major theme in the article is that this movement l…
The Politics of Gentrification: The Case of West Town in Chicago
The author examines the local dialectics of power associated with gentrification in the community of West Town in Chicago, discussing the process, contentions resulting from opposite interests, strategies of the major players involved, and the painful and emotional struggles that have resulted from the advance of gentrification. Today, West Town is bitterly split between contending agents of gentrification and resistance. Although the process has…
The Settlement Experience of Latinos in Chicago: Segregation, Speculation, and the Ecology Model
This article describes the process and characteristics of Latino settlement in Chicago. It identifies elements of segregation and discrimination associated with Latino status. The analysis disagrees with Massey's claim that Latino settlement is proceeding along the lines of the ecological model. It claims that, though descriptively relevant, the model is not very useful for explaining the Latino experience, particularly prejudices and practices r…
The Politics of Gentrification: The Case of West Town in Chicago
The author examines the local dialectics of power associated with gentrification in the community of West Town in Chicago, discussing the process, contentions resulting from opposite interests, strategies of the major players involved, and the painful and emotional struggles that have resulted from the advance of gentrification. Today, West Town is bitterly split between contending agents of gentrification and resistance. Although the process has…
Gentrification and Community Fabric in Chicago
Critical authors of gentrification point to its deleterious impacts on displaced residents. Research on the nature or actual forms of impacts has not advanced much, however. This paper attempts to specify impacts on low-income racial/ethnic groups (Latinos in particular) in five Chicago neighbourhoods, with a particular focus on neighbourhood-based fabrics of support and advancement. Limited in their mobility and exchange value resources, lower-i…
Community Development in Chicago: From Harold Washington to Richard M. Daley
This article examines the transformation of community development in Chicago in the last three decades from a predominately grass roots movement for social change to a much smaller and fragmented one led by professionalized groups. It focuses on Harold Washington’s and Richard M. Daley’s mayoral regimes and the ways they helped to shape the context and implementation of community development. The major theme in the article is that this movement l…
The Settlement Experience of Latinos in Chicago: Segregation, Speculation, and the Ecology Model
This article describes the process and characteristics of Latino settlement in Chicago. It identifies elements of segregation and discrimination associated with Latino status. The analysis disagrees with Massey's claim that Latino settlement is proceeding along the lines of the ecological model. It claims that, though descriptively relevant, the model is not very useful for explaining the Latino experience, particularly prejudices and practices r…
Revisiting Medellin's Governance Arrangement After the Dust Settled
Governance is a polysemic prescription for contemporary government and at an urban level has been instrumental in some radical and often striking reshaping of cities. This paper examines the interests and power structures behind those changes through the critical examination of the case of Medellin, Colombia, until recently a model of “good governance,” internationally acknowledged for its early millennium transformation from “murder capital to m…
Whose voice do community development organizations speak? The trajectory of CBOs in Latino Pilsen in Chicago
Most of the literature and other publications on CBOs assume that they speak the voices and pursue the interests of the communities they claim to represent. While acknowledging the transformative work of some of them, recent studies have portrayed CBOs as forces of social control and poverty management. This paper reports the findings of a study examining the trajectory of CBOs in Pilsen, a Latino community in Chicago, through a historical-geneal…
The 2006–2007 immigration mobilizations and community capacity: The experience of Chicago
Emerging Intersections: Race, Class, and Gender in Theory, Policy, and Practice
Book Review| July 01 2012 Emerging Intersections: Race, Class, and Gender in Theory, Policy, and Practice Emerging Intersections: Race, Class, and Gender in Theory, Policy, and Practice. Edited by Bonnie Thornton Dill and Ruth Enid Zambrana. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2009. xvii + 306 pp. Tables, index, and bibliography. $24.95 (paper). John J. Betancur John J. Betancur Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google …
The Settlement Experience of Latinos in Chicago: Segregation, Speculation, and the Ecology Model
This article describes the process and characteristics of Latino settlement in Chicago. It identifies elements of segregation and discrimination associated with Latino status. The analysis disagrees with Massey's claim that Latino settlement is proceeding along the lines of the ecological model. It claims that, though descriptively relevant, the model is not very useful for explaining the Latino experience, particularly prejudices and practices r…
The Politics of Gentrification: The Case of West Town in Chicago
The author examines the local dialectics of power associated with gentrification in the community of West Town in Chicago, discussing the process, contentions resulting from opposite interests, strategies of the major players involved, and the painful and emotional struggles that have resulted from the advance of gentrification. Today, West Town is bitterly split between contending agents of gentrification and resistance. Although the process has…
Community Development in Chicago: From Harold Washington to Richard M. Daley
This article examines the transformation of community development in Chicago in the last three decades from a predominately grass roots movement for social change to a much smaller and fragmented one led by professionalized groups. It focuses on Harold Washington’s and Richard M. Daley’s mayoral regimes and the ways they helped to shape the context and implementation of community development. The major theme in the article is that this movement l…
Latino Crossings: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans and the Politics of Race and Citizenship – John J. Betancur
An Expression of Appreciation
Gentrification and Community Fabric in Chicago
Critical authors of gentrification point to its deleterious impacts on displaced residents. Research on the nature or actual forms of impacts has not advanced much, however. This paper attempts to specify impacts on low-income racial/ethnic groups (Latinos in particular) in five Chicago neighbourhoods, with a particular focus on neighbourhood-based fabrics of support and advancement. Limited in their mobility and exchange value resources, lower-i…
The 2006–2007 immigration mobilizations and community capacity: The experience of Chicago
Emerging Intersections: Race, Class, and Gender in Theory, Policy, and Practice
Book Review| July 01 2012 Emerging Intersections: Race, Class, and Gender in Theory, Policy, and Practice Emerging Intersections: Race, Class, and Gender in Theory, Policy, and Practice. Edited by Bonnie Thornton Dill and Ruth Enid Zambrana. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2009. xvii + 306 pp. Tables, index, and bibliography. $24.95 (paper). John J. Betancur John J. Betancur Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google …
Reinventing Race, Reinventing Racism
Reinventing Race, Reinventing Racism not only provides fresh theoretical insights into the new forms of race and racism, it also provides evidence of and policy solutions to address these seemingly intractable forms of discrimination and racial disparities. These issues are tackled by some of the nation’s most prominent race and public policy scholars. In addition, the volume has contributions by some of the most innovative up-and-coming voices t…
Gentrification in Latin America: Overview and Critical Analysis
This paper offers a critical review and interpretation of gentrification in Latin American cities. Applying a flexible methodology, it examines enabling conditions associated with societal regime change and local contingencies to determine its presence, nature, extent, and possibilities. Questioning the uncritical transfer of constructs such as gentrification from the Global North to the Global South, the paper advocates analyses of mediating str…
How much control do Latinos and African Americans have of their mutual relations
Urban Neighborhoods in a New Era: Revitalization Politics in the Postindustrial City
Black-brown solidarity: Racial politics in the new Gulf South by John D. Márquez
Whose voice do community development organizations speak? The trajectory of CBOs in Latino Pilsen in Chicago
Most of the literature and other publications on CBOs assume that they speak the voices and pursue the interests of the communities they claim to represent. While acknowledging the transformative work of some of them, recent studies have portrayed CBOs as forces of social control and poverty management. This paper reports the findings of a study examining the trajectory of CBOs in Pilsen, a Latino community in Chicago, through a historical-geneal…
Revisiting Medellin's Governance Arrangement After the Dust Settled
Governance is a polysemic prescription for contemporary government and at an urban level has been instrumental in some radical and often striking reshaping of cities. This paper examines the interests and power structures behind those changes through the critical examination of the case of Medellin, Colombia, until recently a model of “good governance,” internationally acknowledged for its early millennium transformation from “murder capital to m…
Who owns this neighborhood? The struggle for home in Latino Pilsen, Chicago
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