Why read African Americans and Gentrification in Washington, D.C.?

Book cover of African Americans and Gentrification in Washington, D.C.: Race, Class and Social Justice in the Nation's Capital

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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…

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1 author picked African Americans and Gentrification in Washington, D.C. as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Tanya Maria Golash-Boza

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This book offers insight into how Black DC residents think about their changing city.

For many Black long-term residents, DC has long been a “Chocolate city,” a city where Black people held both the demographic and political majority, and where Black people created their own spaces of belonging, pride, and self-reliance.

This book draws from oral histories and ethnographic data with long-term African-American residents of DC to explain both how gentrification has enhanced the vulnerability of low-income residents and how Black residents of DC are reclaiming spaces in their city.

From Tanya's list on how DC became the most gentrified city in the country.