1.This scholarly article gives an overview of the changes of New York City’s demographics over the past 40 years from 1970-2010. This scholarly article goes over the history of the city’s policies, demographics, and socioeconomic status that led to gentrification, especially in historically black neighborhoods/communities. This will allow me to understand the history and acquire the background knowledge that led to the rise in gentrification that is seen all around us today and th3e impacts its had on marginalized communities.
Sutton, S. (2020). Gentrification and the increasing significance of racial transition in New York City 1970–2010. Urban Affairs Review, 56(1), 65-95.
2.This scholarly article emphasizes gentrification in Brooklyn. Brooklyn is the borough that I was raised in and currently still reside in, so this article will provide more information about the borough’s plight with gentrification. This scholarly article takes a deeper look into Black Brooklyn, neighborhoods that are predominantly Black, that is made up of different Black ethnic groups; highlights the ways that it has been gentrified overall in the last couple decades and the significance of the erasure.
“What’s Happened to the People?” Gentrification and Racial Segregation in Brooklyn | SpringerLink
Chronopoulos, T. (2020). “What’s happened to the people?” Gentrification and racial segregation in Brooklyn. Journal of African American Studies, 24, 549-572.
3.This scholarly article really takes a look at the external factors that produce the byproduct of gentrification. It takes into account the policies and institutional structures that have actually affected people such as finding affordable housing. Affordable housing in New York, especially in the city has always been an issue and a topic of discussion, the article goes into depth of the invisible factors that have caused this problem to arise.
Affordable Housing in New York: The People, Places, and Policies That … – Google Books
Bloom, N. D., & Lasner, M. G. (Eds.). (2016). Affordable housing in New York: The people, places, and policies that transformed a city. Princeton University Press.
4.This scholarly article is a deep dive into the neighborhood that I have spent my formative years in: East Flatbush. The article spends a lot of time explaining a lot of well known landmarks of this area such as Kings County Hospital, Wingate High School, etc because of the area’s past of violence. The article is important to understanding the neighborhood’s past and it’s foundation in order to understand it’s present and the things that I am currently witnessing in the area’s transformation.
A Garden for East Flatbush – ProQuest
Robles, B. M. (2017). A Garden for East Flatbush. Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, School of Graduate Studies.
5.This scholarly article is about the reactions of the residents that live in neighborhoods that are becoming gentrified or are gentrifying. It really examines people from the “hood” or inner-city aka predominantly black/ brown low-middle income/ working class communities and their thoughts and their opinions to their ever-changing surroundings.
https://cuny-bm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CUNY_BM/1i2v9c6/alma9994400178706141
Freeman. (2006). There goes the ’hood views of gentrificatio
