Before Gentrification: The Creation of DCs Racial Wealth Gap Golash-Boza Tanya Maria
Before Gentrification: The Creation of DCs Racial Wealth Gap Golash-Boza Tanya Maria Draws a direct line between redlining, incarceration, and gentrification in an American city.This book shows how a…
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Before Gentrification: The Creation of DCs Racial Wealth Gap Golash-Boza Tanya Maria
Draws a direct line between redlining, incarceration, and gentrification in an American city.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. 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 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.