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Gentrifying Water and Selling Jim Crow.
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Williams, Brett – Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, 2002
Explores the gentrification of Washington, D.C.'s Anacostia watershed, tracing the projects of federal and local government to devitalize and demolish living black relationships and institutions while reifying lost, invented, or imagined communities. Explores connections among capital, community, culture, and state power. Examines problems in the…
Descriptors: Black Community, Blacks, Neighborhood Improvement, Racial Factors
The Other "Real World": Gentrification and the Social Construction of Place in Chicago.
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Perez, Gina M. – Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, 2002
Explores competing constructions and understandings of the gentrifying neighborhoods on Chicago's near northwest side, noting how Puerto Rican youth are implicated in these changes. Explores contradictory images of neighborhoods, residents' responses to these changes, and various linguistic attempts to refashion new ethno-racial designations in…
Descriptors: Blacks, Hispanic Americans, Neighborhood Improvement, Neighborhoods
The Sandtown-Winchester Neighborhood Transformation Initiative: Lessons Learned about Community Building and Implementation.
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Brown, Prudence; Butler, Benjamin; Hamilton, Ralph – 2001
This report documents results of Baltimore's Sandtown-Winchester Neighborhood Transformation (NT) Initiative, focusing on key decisions that helped shape the initiative. NT was one of the first attempts to systematically bring together diverse strands of thinking about comprehensive community change to overcome conditions that undermine…
Descriptors: Blacks, Community Change, Community Development, Elementary Education
Where the Poor Live: How Federal Housing Policy Shapes Residential Communities.
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Clark, Sherri Lawson – Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, 2002
Describes HOPE VI, a federal housing program that finances new public housing development, examining the spatial organization of one site that has played an integral role in housing the poor. Demonstrates the layers of interactions involved in implementation of the housing program, noting limitations of the program to provide suitable housing for…
Descriptors: Black Community, Blacks, Federal Government, Federal Legislation