Middle-Class Mexican Americans, Neighborhood Affect, and Redevelopment in Houston's Northside Barrio

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5823536
AutoresE Korver-Glenn (0000-0001-9513-8122, Rice University, autor correspondente)
Ano2014
Volume13
Fascículo4
Páginas381-402
Data de publicação2014-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCity and Community (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1535-6841 • E-ISSN: 1540-6040
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1111/cico.12089
OpenAlexW2119257280
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas33

Prior research has illuminated the destructive impact of redevelopment in racially marginalized U.S. barrios, but we know little about middle-class Mexican Americans' perceptions of barrio redevelopment, why they may perceive redevelopment in different ways, and what the implications of their perceptions are. Using ethnographic- and interview-based methods, I ask how middle-class Mexican Americans in Houston's Northside barrio perceive recent redevelopment efforts underway in the neighborhood. I also ask why respondents perceive redevelopment in different ways, with some viewing redevelopment as progress and others viewing it as destructive. Not finding systematic differences across categories of generation-since-immigration, race, residence, class, or class background, I argue respondents' sentimental and behavioral attachment to barrio places, institutions, people, and culture is the best explanation for their differing perceptions of redevelopment. Finally, I ask what the implications of their perceptions may be, as a fractured middle-class Mexican American response may facilitate destructive redevelopment processes in the future

Gentrification · Homelessness and Social Issues · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies