UID:
edocfu_9959227106602883
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 157 pages) :
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illustrations.
ISBN:
1-5017-1162-8
Series Statement:
The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
Content:
In Upscaling Downtown, anthropologist Brett Williams provides an ethnography of a changing urban neighborhood that she calls "Elm Valley." Located in Washington, D.C., Elm Valley was one of the first neighborhoods to draw middle-class property owners back to the inner city, but a faltering housing industry halted what might have been the rapid displacement of the poor. As a result, Elm Valley experienced several years of stalled gentrification. It was a period when very unlikely people lived side by side: black families who had migrated to the nation's capital from the Carolinas decades earlier, newly arrived refugees from Central America and Southeast Asia, and more prosperous whites. For Williams, a ten-year resident of Elm Valley, stalled gentrification offered a rare opportunity to observe how people 'with varied cultural traditions and economic resources saw and used the neighborhood in which they lived.
Note:
Includes index.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Preface --
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Introduction --
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1. Revisiting the Symbolic City --
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2. Reinventing the South --
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3. The Meaning of Home --
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4. The Struggle for Main Street --
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5. Tele-visions of Urban Life --
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6. The Invention of Community --
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References --
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Index
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8014-2106-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8014-9419-2
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.7591/9781501711626
