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Sociology Department Colloquium - Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana

“Not That Neighborhood!: Racialized Perspectives on the Value of Gentrification”

Thursday, April 14, 2022
12:30pm – 2:00pm
Zoom
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Lectures & Seminars

“Not That Neighborhood!: Racialized Perspectives on the Value of Gentrification”

Both in and out of the academy, the debate about gentrification is whether it is a “good” or “bad” change.  In this chapter of my in-progress book, I write about the news media’s take on this question and analyze how assessments of gentrification vary by race.  In my analysis of almost 1,000 articles about gentrification in Baltimore, Maryland and San Francisco, California published between 1990 and 2014, I find that assessments of gentrification reflect the underlying value of the racialized space in which it occurs.  Articles describe gentrification in Asian and Black neighborhoods as less detrimental to residents and the neighborhoods than gentrification in Latinx and White neighborhoods.  These assessments reflect the devaluation of Asian and Black spaces and people in the two cities and the value of White neighborhoods and residents.  As I argue, these racialized assessments are the logical conclusion of the ways in which the news presents gentrification as race-neutral, without a history, and unfolding similarly regardless of the neighborhood. 

https://dartmouth.zoom.us/j/97812863247?pwd=WDZVYVNRT2E1ZjNPaU9WZTh2STNXUT09

 

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