African Americans and Gentrification in Washington, D.C

Race, Class and Social Justice in the Nation's Capital

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ID19926503
AuthorsSabiyha Robin Prince (0000-0003-3000-4064, corresponding author), Sabiyha Prince
Year2016
Pages194
Publication date2016-03-03
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueAfrican Americans and Gentrification in Washington, D. C. (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315565996
OpenAlexW4256186785
ISBN9781315565996
Open LibraryOL33547922M
Google BooksE2OrCwAAQBAJ
LanguageEN
Citations received13

This book uses qualitative data to explore the experiences and ideas of African Americans confronting and constructing gentrification in Washington, D.C. It contextualizes Black Washingtonians’ perspectives on belonging and attachment during a marked period of urban restructuring and demographic change in the Nation’s Capital and sheds light on the process of social hierarchies and standpoints unfolding over time. African Americans and Gentrification in Washington, D.C. emerges as a portrait of a heterogeneous African American population wherein members define their identity and culture as a people informed by the impact of injustice on the urban landscape. It presents oral history and ethnographic data on current and former African American residents of D.C. and combines these findings with analyses from institutional, statistical, and scholarly reports on wealth inequality, shortages in affordable housing, and rates of unemployment. Prince contends that gentrification seizes upon and fosters uneven development, vulnerability and alienation and contributes to classed and racialized tensions in affected communities in a book that will interest social scientists working in the fields of critical urban studies and urban ethnography. African Americans and Gentrification in Washington, D.C. will also invigorate discussions of neoliberalism, critical whiteness studies and race relations in the 21st Century

Economic growth · Economics · Gentrification · Geography · Political science · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · African americans · Discrimination & Race Relations · Embourgeoisement (Urbanisme) · Ethnische Beziehung · Ethnische Beziehungen · Gentrifizierung · Minority Studies · Noirs américains · race relations · Schwarze · Social conditions · Social history · Social Science · Soziale Situation · Soziale Ungleichheit · united states · washington (d.c.)

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