Gentrifier: A Memoir Moore Anne Elizabeth
Gentrifier: A Memoir Moore Anne Elizabeth An NPR Best Book of the YearTaking on the thorny ethics of owning and selling property as a white woman in a majority Black city and a majority Bangladeshi…
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Gentrifier: A Memoir Moore Anne Elizabeth
An NPR Best Book of the YearTaking on the thorny ethics of owning and selling property as a white woman in a majority Black city and a majority Bangladeshi neighborhood with both intelligence and humor, this memoir brings a new perspective to a Detroit that finds itself perpetually on the brink of revitalization.Through a series of darkly comic vignettes . . . Moore's project here is not just to illuminate the city's chaos and who profits from it. [Moore] uncovers the city's incompetent governance . . .
--Kristen Martin, NPRIn 2016, a Detroit arts organization grants writer and artist Anne Elizabeth Moore a free house--a room of her own, la Virginia Gentrifier is also an investigation of the costs--monetary, psychological, ethical--of her free house, and an ode to the neighbors who gave her life there inflections of joy.