Before Gentrification

The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-520-39117-8
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

Draws a direct line between redlining, incarceration, and gentrification in an American city.
 
This book shows how a century of redlining, disinvestment, and the War on Drugs wreaked devastation on Black people and paved the way for gentrification in Washington, DC. In Before Gentrification, Tanya Maria Golash-Boza tracks the cycles of state abandonment and punishment that have shaped the city, revealing how policies and policing work to displace and decimate the Black middle class.

Through the stories of those who have lost their homes and livelihoods, Golash-Boza explores how DC came to be the nation's "murder capital" and incarceration capital, and why it is now a haven for wealthy White people. This troubling history makes clear that the choice to use prisons and policing to solve problems faced by Black communities in the twentieth century—instead of investing in schools, community centers, social services, health care, and violence prevention—is what made gentrification possible in the twenty-first. Before Gentrification unveils a pattern of anti-Blackness and racial capitalism in DC that has implications for all US cities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Golash-Boza, Tanya Maria

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Illustrations and Tables 

Acknowledgments

Introduction 

PART ONE: DISINVESTMENT 
1. Dispossession and Displacement 
2. The Violence of Disinvestment 

PART TWO: CARCERAL INVESTMENT 
3. Cracking Down: The War on Drugs and Downward Mobility 
4. Bringing in the Feds: Targeting Black Middle-Class Neighborhoods 

PART THREE: REINVESTMENT 
5. Chocolate City No More: Gentrification through White Reclamation 
6. Racialized Reinvestment: HOPE VI, New Communities, and the End of Public Housing 

Conclusion: Locked Up and Locked Out 

Appendix A: Interviewees 
Appendix B: Oral Histories 
Notes 
References 
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tanya Maria Golash-Boza is the Executive Director of the University of California Washington Center and a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Merced. She is the author of five books that engage with issues such as racism, immigration policy, human rights, and race in Latin America.