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Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City

Derek S. Hyra

出版	University of Chicago Press, 2017-04-17
主題	Political Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban DevelopmentScience / Earth Sciences / GeographySocial Science / GeneralSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black StudiesSocial Science / Sociology / UrbanSocial Science / Social Classes & Economic DisparitySocial Science / Race & Ethnic Relations
ISBN	022644953X9780226449531
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=EZYtDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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For long-time residents of Washington, DC’s Shaw/U Street, the neighborhood has become almost unrecognizable in recent years. Where the city’s most infamous open-air drug market once stood, a farmers’ market now sells grass-fed beef and homemade duck egg ravioli. On the corner where AM.PM carryout used to dish out soul food, a new establishment markets its $28 foie gras burger. Shaw is experiencing a dramatic transformation, from “ghetto” to “gilded ghetto,” where white newcomers are rehabbing homes, developing dog parks, and paving the way for a third wave coffee shop on nearly every block.

Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City is an in-depth ethnography of this gilded ghetto. Derek S. Hyra captures here a quickly gentrifying space in which long-time black residents are joined, and variously displaced, by an influx of young, white, relatively wealthy, and/or gay professionals who, in part as a result of global economic forces and the recent development of central business districts, have returned to the cities earlier generations fled decades ago. As a result, America is witnessing the emergence of what Hyra calls “cappuccino cities.” A cappuccino has essentially the same ingredients as a cup of coffee with milk, but is considered upscale, and is double the price. In Hyra’s cappuccino city, the black inner-city neighborhood undergoes enormous transformations and becomes racially “lighter” and more expensive by the year.