B. Write an APA Style Literature Review. ADD THE 2 NEW ARTICLES TO THE NEW RESEARCH DOCUMENT.

Running Head: RACE AND GENTRIFICATION 1

RACE AND GENTRIFICATION 2

Race and Gentrification:

Solutions for our Local Communities

Race and Gentrification:

Solutions for our Local Communities

Issues of equal rights to all individuals have been the epicenter of legislative and policy debates since time immemorial. Activists constantly push to ensure the representativeness of the minority groups in all sectors of the economy and society and grant them opportunities equal to those of the minority group. This is because ignoring the minority groups in policy formulation could disadvantage the already disadvantaged individuals in society and exacerbate the pre-existing inequality problems. SPEAK ABOUT RACE AND GENTRIFICATION. The best solution based on the evidence below is……

Literature Review

Issues of equal rights to all individuals have been the epicenter of legislative and policy debates since time immemorial. Activists constantly push to ensure the representativeness of the minority groups in all sectors of the economy and society and grant them opportunities equal to those of the minority group. This is because ignoring the minority groups in policy formulation could disadvantage the already disadvantaged individuals in society and exacerbate the pre-existing inequality problems. SPEAK ABOUT RACE AND GENTRIFICATION. The question is how are race and gentrification related an what can be done about it?

An article that tackles this is issue is “Who’s Turf, whose Town? Race, Status, and Attitudes of Washington DC Residents toward Gentrification” by Carley M. Shinault & Richard Seltzer. Gentrification is the process of renovating an old town to meet the tastes and standards of the current society. Gentrification comes in with several advantages such as increased profits for homeowners, increased access to facilities, reduced transport and negative externalities like traffic, and creating more employment opportunities. On the other hand, gentrification faces opposition because of its disadvantages such as increased living standards hence pushing the poor out of town, increased housing burdens, crowding, and fear of community change. Following the arguments for and against gentrification, researchers have explored the factors that influence people’s perceptions and perspectives on the gentrification of various cities. Employing the 2014 Washington poll data, Shinault & Seltzer (2019) explored the effects of race and class on individual perspectives towards gentrification costs and benefits. Their study revealed that both race and gender were significant determinants of residents’ attitudes towards gentrification of Washington DC, commonly known as ‘the chocolate city’, although the class is a more salient determinant. (Shinault & Seltzer, 2019) posit that gentrification is characterized by class successions where the current residents who are poor are displaced by the more affluent home-seekers post-gentrification. In terms of race, the minority racial groups are likely to oppose gentrification in fear of being displaced by the majority races like whites that have more access to facilities and well up enough to keep with the improved living standards of the city.

Another article that explores this problem is “Deracinated Dispossessions: On the Foreclosures of “Gentrification” in Oakland, CA” by Erin McElroy & Alex Werth. In a related study, McElroy & Werth (2019) propose the need to consider the racial and geopolitical histories of a town before gentrification. (McElroy & Werth, 2019) posit that the transposition of the ‘tech gentrification’ model of San Francisco resulted in deracinated displacements that led to further resistance and a disadvantage of the already disadvantaged population. The study proposes that urban scholars need to consider the differences in cities not only as either postcolonial or metropolitan cities, but also consider the racial and class differences of the cities before applying the ‘tech gentrification’ model and customizing it appropriately. Implicitly, McElroy & Werth (2019) allude to the effects of race and gender differences in gentrification costs and benefits. Using the case of Oakland, the study proposes the need for the incorporation of race and class issues in postcolonial urban studies in North America.

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References

McElroy, E., & Werth, A. (2019). Deracinated Dispossessions: On the Foreclosures of “Gentrification” in Oakland, CA. Antipode, 51(3), 878–898. https://doi-org.db16.linccweb.org/10.1111/anti.12528.

Elliott-Cooper, A., Hubbard, P., & Lees, L. (2020). Moving beyond Marcuse: Gentrification, displacement and the violence of un-homing. Progress in Human Geography, 44(3), 492–509. https://doi-org.db16.linccweb.org/10.1177/0309132519830511

DeVerteuil, G., May, J., & von Mahs, J. (2009). Complexity not collapse: recasting the geographies of homelessness in a “punitive” age. Progress in Human Geography, 33(5), 646–666. https://doi-org.db16.linccweb.org/10.1177/0309132508104995

Shinault, C. M., & Seltzer, R. (2019). Whose Turf, whose Town? Race, Status, and Attitudes of Washington DC Residents toward Gentrification. Journal of African American Studies, 23(1/2), 72–91. https://doi-org.db16.linccweb.org/10.1007/s12111-019-09427-9.