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A provocative account of what is gained and what is lost when a word that once narrowly referred to neighborhood change takes on a life all its own

Sociologist Ruth Glass coined the term gentrification in the 1960s to mark the displacement of working-class residents in London neighborhoods by the…

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Language is power, and Japonica Brown-Saracino shows how our use and mis-use of the term gentrification is corroding our ability to communicate clearly about how and why neighborhood change takes place.

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