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Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap First Edition
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This book shows how a century of redlining, disinvestment, and the War on Drugs wreaked devastation on Black people and paved the way for gentrification in Washington, DC. In Before Gentrification, Tanya Maria Golash-Boza tracks the cycles of state abandonment and punishment that have shaped the city, revealing how policies and policing work to displace and decimate the Black middle class.
Through the stories of those who have lost their homes and livelihoods, Golash-Boza explores how DC came to be the nation's "murder capital" and incarceration capital, and why it is now a haven for wealthy White people. This troubling history makes clear that the choice to use prisons and policing to solve problems faced by Black communities in the twentieth century—instead of investing in schools, community centers, social services, health care, and violence prevention—is what made gentrification possible in the twenty-first. Before Gentrification unveils a pattern of anti-Blackness and racial capitalism in DC that has implications for all US cities.
- ISBN-100520391179
- ISBN-13978-0520391178
- EditionFirst Edition
- Publication dateSeptember 5, 2023
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions6 x 0.78 x 9 inches
- Print length311 pages
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"Golash-Boza grew up in the Petworth district of Washington, DC. . . . Her anger at the displacement going on in Washington, DC is directed at those in power who decided to invest in incarceration instead of working to prevent young people turning to illegal activities by re-opening community centers and programs designed to do exactly that. Her book makes a forceful argument that this was somewhat intentional and certainly preventable." ― Counterpunch
"Before Gentrification examines the historical transition in selected older neighborhoods of Washington, DC, from enclaves of stable working- and middle-class households, to those experiencing disinvestment, and finally, to those later transformed by reinvestment. . . . The book is unusually well documented. Nicely supported by maps, tables, graphs, and photographs, it also includes chapter notes, a competent subject index, and a hefty reference list." ― Journal of Urban Affairs
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"Tanya Maria Golash-Boza weaves personal memory, interviews, and administrative and archival data to uncover the capitalist and carceral systems that caused the downward mobility of striving Black families in Washington, DC. Their losses are the gains of today's gentrifiers. Before Gentrification offers a sophisticated understanding of the mechanisms of racial inequality and represents sociological imagination at its best."—Mary Pattillo, author of Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City
"Before Gentrification is an urgent, subtle, insightful, and critically important contribution. Backed by rich data and sophisticated theory, Golash-Boza persuasively demonstrates how the gentrification of 'Chocolate City' does not occur in isolation, but has been animated by a wave of policies that abandoned the vulnerable through criminalization and economic deprivation. Through this original and well-written text, we are better equipped to understand, critique, and—just possibly—resist the contradictions and consequences of neoliberalism and racial capitalism."—Marc Lamont Hill, coauthor of Seen and Unseen: Technology, Social Media, and the Fight for Racial Justice
"Before Gentrification tells the overlooked narrative of how the carceral state and gentrified city are connected. Policies of Black community dispossession, disinvestment, and violent police surveillance set the stage for neighborhood reinvestment and racially uneven wealth accumulation. This stark story is told powerfully through intergenerational experiences of middle-class and low-income African American families struggling to survive and thrive in a capitalist system filled with destructive discriminatory structures. This is a must-read for those interested in understanding how anti-Black policy decisions drive mass incarceration, gentrification, and dire racial inequality in Washington, DC, and throughout our nation."—Derek Hyra, author of Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City
"Blending the sharp insights of a top sociologist and the passion of a proud local, Golash-Boza exposes the myriad ways that mass incarceration scars Black communities, undercuts the foundation of intergenerational mobility, and renders neighborhoods ripe for expropriation."—Forrest Stuart, author of Down, Out, and Under Arrest
"Before Gentrification describes in vivid, gut-wrenching, and often heartbreaking detail how the American dream of homeownership in Washington, DC, became an African American nightmare of dispossession, displacement, and disinvestment. Golash-Boza demonstrates that in the nation's capital, gentrification has meant white racial violence, with state-sponsored, anti-Black carceral policies as its disturbing underside. Based on moving oral testimonies and impressive archival research, Before Gentrification is a critical addition to recent studies of capitalism and racism that should be urgently read by both scholars and policy makers—and anyone committed to racial justice and the elimination of the racial wealth gap."—Peter James Hudson, Associate Professor of African American Studies and History, UCLA
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- Publisher : University of California Press; First Edition (September 5, 2023)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 311 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0520391179
- ISBN-13 : 978-0520391178
- Item Weight : 1 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.78 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #475,755 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #169 in City Planning & Urban Development
- #188 in Urban Planning and Development
- #454 in Sociology of Urban Areas
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About the author
Tanya Golash-Boza is a sociologist of race, ethnicity and immigration whose work explores racial and ethnic identities in the United States and Latin America as well as the racial disparities and human rights implications of U.S. immigration policy. As Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Merced, she teaches courses on race, immigration and writing.
Professor Golash-Boza's scholarship spans the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Her work on Latino identities and the U.S. racial hierarchy has been published in International Migration Review, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Social Forces. Her scholarship on black identities in Peru has been published in Social Problems and Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies as well as forms the basis for her book, Yo Soy Negro (February 2011, University Press of Florida). Her research on immigration policy and human rights has been published in several academic journals as well as in her book Immigration Nation and Due Process Denied.
Tanya Golash-Boza is the author of dozens of articles and book chapters, five sole-authored books as well as dozens of essays in online and print magazines including The Nation, Counterpunch, Al Jazeera and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Her innovative scholarship earned the Distinguished Early Career Award of the Racial and Ethnic Minorities Studies Section of the American Sociological Association in 2010. She also won the Best Article Award from the Latino/a Studies Section of the American Sociological Association in 2008 and a fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Center for Junior Scholars of Democracy in Latin America in 2006.
Tanya Golash-Boza's most recent work is on the consequences of mass deportation. With funding from a Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Award, she completed over 150 interviews with deportees in Brazil, Guatemala, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic in 2009 and 2010. This research forms the basis of her book - Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor, and Global Capitalism, published in 2015 by NYU Press.
Tanya Golash-Boza graduated with a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Maryland, a Certificate of Anthropology from L'Ecole d'Anthropologie in Paris, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She lives in Merced, California with her husband and three school-age children. She has lived in Latin America, Europe and the Caribbean, and speaks fluent English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French.
Visit her website at: http://radprof.weebly.com/
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