Money and the Ghetto, Money in the Ghetto

Jenkins, Destin

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“…Doing so reveals how violence influenced the cost to borrow. 26 Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor reinforces the economic themes emphasized by Jenkins. Working as a tenant advocate for a housing rights organization in the early twenty-first century, she assisted in the legal representation of tenants, mostly African American women, facing eviction in housing court, many of whom lived in conditions more reminiscent of the nineteenth century, much less the twenty-first.…”

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Introduction: Urban History, Arnold Hirsch, and the Second Ghetto Thesis Redux

Gilfoyle

2020

Journal of Urban History

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The death of American historian Arnold Hirsch, in 2018, generated multiple reexaminations of his profoundly influential “second ghetto thesis.” Hirsch’s landmark Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940 - 1960 (1983) is considered among the most important books on twentieth-century American history published in the past half century. In 2003, contributors to a special issue of the Journal of Urban History reflected on the twentieth anniversary of Hirsch’s second ghetto thesis. More recently, a new generation of urbanists have emerged who build upon and challenge Hirsch’s work. This forum highlights this new generation.

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Introduction: Urban History, Arnold Hirsch, and the Second Ghetto Thesis Redux

Gilfoyle

2020

Journal of Urban History

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“…Embedded in the dollar amounts of economic value, market value, or exchange value is the valuation or devaluation of the social and cultural worth of a product, place, or people based on how they are racialized (Dantzler 2021; Hightower and Fraser 2020; Jenkins 2020; Leong 2013; Powell and Spencer 2002; Zimmer 2020). This includes the racialized assessment of both present value, such as property values, and potential future value, such as expected investment returns (Anacker 2010; Boston 2021; Dantzler 2021; Howell and Korver-Glenn 2018, 2020; Moye 2014; Perry, Rothwell, and Harshbarger 2018; Taylor 2019).…”

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Theorizing Gentrification as a Process of Racial Capitalism

Rucks-Ahidiana

2021

City & Community

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Academics largely define gentrification based on changes in the class demographics of neighborhood residents from predominately low-income to middle-class. This ignores that gentrification always occurs in spaces defined by both class and race. In this article, I use the lens of racial capitalism to theorize gentrification as a racialized, profit-accumulating process, integrating the perspective that spaces are always racialized to class-centered theories. Using the prior literature on gentrification in the United States, I demonstrate how the concepts of value, valuation, and devaluation from racial capitalism explain where and how gentrification unfolds. Exposure to gentrification varies depending on a neighborhood’s racial composition and the gentrification stakeholders involved, which contributes to racial differences in the scale and pace of change and the implications of those changes for the processes of displacement. Revising our understanding of gentrification to address the racialization of space helps resolve seemingly contradictory findings across qualitative and quantitative studies.

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Concealed exchanges: relational work in racially segregated housing markets

Jang-Trettien

2024

Social Forces

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How do real-estate investors make decisions about where to purchase properties? In recent years, an increasing share of the market has gone to investors, making it critical that we understand the behaviors of these important actors. This study examines investment as a relational process. Through 74 interviews with real estate investors, as well as additional interviews with homeowners and renters in low- to middle-income neighborhoods in Baltimore, I find that strategic interactions and intimate relational work among professional and amateur investors are key to understanding how properties are sold. Professional investors cultivate bonds with new investors by identifying common goals and obstacles. They also use concealment strategies to sell homes, including: legal concealment, concealment through bundling, and concealment through brokers. Legal concealment involves using legal vehicles to transfer properties between owners. Concealment through bundling occurs when properties are bundled together to be sold in bulk. Finally, concealment through brokers entails finding brokers who can connect sellers to investors from other markets. These strategies obscure not only the nature of the relationship between buyers and sellers but also the quality of products being sold. The series of exchanges resemble how products are sold within direct-selling organizations and other predatory industries, which rely on a pyramid-like structure of sponsors and distributors. Furthermore, concealment strategies are more likely to happen in weaker markets and poorer neighborhoods where investor behavior is less constrained—this suggests that concealment has potential to increase urban inequality.

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Money and the Ghetto, Money in the Ghetto

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Introduction: Urban History, Arnold Hirsch, and the Second Ghetto Thesis Redux

Introduction: Urban History, Arnold Hirsch, and the Second Ghetto Thesis Redux

Theorizing Gentrification as a Process of Racial Capitalism

Concealed exchanges: relational work in racially segregated housing markets

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