Perfect for Washington

Asch, Chris Myers; Musgrove, George Derek

doi:10.5149/northcarolina/9781469635866.003.0014

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“…Additionally, the observed cratering in 2015 of Black beliefs in the positive prospects of gentrification occurred amid contentious public considerations, debates, and forecasts about Black population loss, the prospects for the first elected white mayor in the history of the city, and the end of ‘Chocolate City’ (Asch and Musgrove, 2017; Jafe, 2014). The negative gentrification sentiments Black Washingtonians hold, especially in relation to it burdening people like them, is not untethered from empirical observations of the winners and losers of US public policymaking.…”

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Race and perceptions of revitalisation in the ‘District of Gentrification’

Owens,

Schuett,

Crawford

et al. 2023

Urban Studies

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Ethnographies of gentrification, by using interviews, suggest individual and group sentiments about it as a form of revitalisation are heterogenous, even within neighbourhoods experiencing it. Discerning variation and changes over time in citywide sentiments about gentrification, however, is a challenge. It requires city-level survey data, especially longitudinal data, which is scarce. We use novel data from Washington Post surveys of District of Columbia (i.e. Washington, DC) residents between 2000 and 2016 to test predictions of city-level gentrification opinions, deduced from neighbourhood-based ethnographies of gentrification. We observe and emphasise how, over time, race is consistently associated with opinion divergence about gentrification, including perceptions of its inequalities and consequences. Our findings demonstrate the value of citywide surveys for extending empirical findings from neighbourhood-level ethnographies of gentrification.

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Race and perceptions of revitalisation in the ‘District of Gentrification’

Owens,

Schuett,

Crawford

et al. 2023

Urban Studies

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“…Washington, D.C., has experienced multiple waves of revitalization and gentrification (Asch & Musgrove, 2015). The persistent disinvestment and dispossession of Black neighborhoods, in particular, created a pathway for the city’s most recent wave of gentrification (Golash-Boza, 2023; Schlichtman et al, 2017).…”

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“It’s a Chance, Not a Choice”: Black Families, School Choice, and Gentrification in Washington, D.C.

Butler,

Quarles

2024

Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education

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Background: Public education reforms, such as expanded school choice, have become a critical lever for remaking urban landscapes. These reforms often aim to attract and retain affluent and White families in urban schools, so scholars have examined how these parents navigate the perceived risk of choosing these schools for their children. Purpose: This paper extends this scholarship to understand how other families experience these reforms in gentrifying landscapes. We ask: (1) How do Black parents navigate school selection in a gentrifying and expansive education marketplace? (2) How do Black parents’ perceptions of schooling shape their approach to school selection? (3) How do parents’ positionalities (e.g., gender, class, place attachments, and tenure in the city) influence their experiences? Research Design: We leverage a qualitative meta-analysis design that pools data from three separately conducted studies of gentrification in Washington, D.C. For this analysis, we center on 34 Black parents’ experiences as they navigate school selection. We reanalyzed data through the lens of critical spatial and racial theories. We paid particular attention to participants’ attachments to place, their perceptions of their choices, the school and neighborhood attributes participants valued, and how they navigated school selection. Findings: Parents considered a broad range of school and neighborhood characteristics as they constructed their choice sets. As they searched for schools, Black parents made a series of racialized compromises to find schools they perceived to be racially, physically, and socially safe for their children. Parents, for example, negotiated their desire for academic rigor with their perception of schools’ social climates and their perceptions that schools would be racially affirming and inclusive. Place and space were essential to parents’ choice set construction. Schools’ physical locations and perceptions of safety influenced whether parents viewed schools as viable options for their children. Conclusion: Our study underscores the multiple factors that bound choice set construction. Critically, Black parents’ experiences as they navigated school selection suggest that the expansive educational marketplace offered a “chance, not a choice” at high-quality educational opportunities.

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Perfect for Washington

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Race and perceptions of revitalisation in the ‘District of Gentrification’

Race and perceptions of revitalisation in the ‘District of Gentrification’

“It’s a Chance, Not a Choice”: Black Families, School Choice, and Gentrification in Washington, D.C.

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