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Capital Dilemma: Growth and Inequality in Washington, DC uncovers
and explains the dynamics that have influenced the contemporary
economic advancement of Washington, DC. This volume's unique
interdisciplinary approach using historical, sociological,
anthropological, economic, geographic, political, and linguistic
theories and approaches, captures the comprehensive factors related
to changes taking place in one of the world's most important
cities. Capital Dilemma clarifies how preexisting urban social
hierarchies, established mainly along race and class lines but also
along national and local interests, are linked with the city's
contemporary inequitable growth. While accounting for historic
disparities, this book reveals how more recent federal and city
political decisions and circumstances shape contemporary
neighborhood gentrification patterns, highlighting the layered
complexities of the modern national capital and connecting these
considerations to Washington, DC's past as well as to more recent
policy choices. As we enter a period where advanced service sector
cities prosper, Washington, DC's changing landscape illustrates
important processes and outcomes critical to other US cities and
national capitals throughout the world. The Capital Dilemma for DC,
and other major cities, is how to produce sustainable equitable
economic growth. This volume expands our understanding of the
contradictions, challenges and opportunities associated with
contemporary urban development.
Capital Dilemma: Growth and Inequality in Washington, DC uncovers
and explains the dynamics that have influenced the contemporary
economic advancement of Washington, DC. This volume's unique
interdisciplinary approach using historical, sociological,
anthropological, economic, geographic, political, and linguistic
theories and approaches, captures the comprehensive factors related
to changes taking place in one of the world's most important
cities. Capital Dilemma clarifies how preexisting urban social
hierarchies, established mainly along race and class lines but also
along national and local interests, are linked with the city's
contemporary inequitable growth. While accounting for historic
disparities, this book reveals how more recent federal and city
political decisions and circumstances shape contemporary
neighborhood gentrification patterns, highlighting the layered
complexities of the modern national capital and connecting these
considerations to Washington, DC's past as well as to more recent
policy choices. As we enter a period where advanced service sector
cities prosper, Washington, DC's changing landscape illustrates
important processes and outcomes critical to other US cities and
national capitals throughout the world. The Capital Dilemma for DC,
and other major cities, is how to produce sustainable equitable
economic growth. This volume expands our understanding of the
contradictions, challenges and opportunities associated with
contemporary urban development.
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 of social
hierarchies and standpoints unfolding over time. African Americans
and Gentrification in Washington, D.C. emerges as a portrait of a
heterogeneous African American population wherein members define
their identity and culture as a people informed by the impact of
injustice on the urban landscape. It presents oral history and
ethnographic data on current and former African American residents
of D.C. and combines these findings with analyses from
institutional, statistical, and scholarly reports on wealth
inequality, shortages in affordable housing, and rates of
unemployment. Prince contends that gentrification seizes upon and
fosters uneven development, vulnerability and alienation and
contributes to classed and racialized tensions in affected
communities in a book that will interest social scientists working
in the fields of critical urban studies and urban ethnography.
African Americans and Gentrification in Washington, D.C. will also
invigorate discussions of neoliberalism, critical whiteness studies
and race relations in the 21st Century.
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 of social
hierarchies and standpoints unfolding over time. African Americans
and Gentrification in Washington, D.C. emerges as a portrait of a
heterogeneous African American population wherein members define
their identity and culture as a people informed by the impact of
injustice on the urban landscape. It presents oral history and
ethnographic data on current and former African American residents
of D.C. and combines these findings with analyses from
institutional, statistical, and scholarly reports on wealth
inequality, shortages in affordable housing, and rates of
unemployment. Prince contends that gentrification seizes upon and
fosters uneven development, vulnerability and alienation and
contributes to classed and racialized tensions in affected
communities in a book that will interest social scientists working
in the fields of critical urban studies and urban ethnography.
African Americans and Gentrification in Washington, D.C. will also
invigorate discussions of neoliberalism, critical whiteness studies
and race relations in the 21st Century.
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