Newcomers to older neighborhoods are usually perceived as destructive, tearing down everything that made the place special and attractive. But as A Neighborhood That Never Changes demonstrates, many gentrifiers seek to preserve the authentic local flavor of their new homes, rather than ruthlessly remake them. Drawing on ethnographic research in four distinct communities--the Chicago neighborhoods of Andersonville and Argyle and the New England towns of Provincetown and Dresden--Japonica Brown-Saracino paints a colorful portrait of how residents new and old, from wealthy gay...
Newcomers to older neighborhoods are usually perceived as destructive, tearing down everything that made the place special and attractive. But as <...
Uniquely well suited for teaching, this innovative text-reader strengthens students critical thinking skills, sparks classroom discussion, and also provides a comprehensive and accessible understanding of gentrification.
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Uniquely well suited for teaching, this innovative text-reader strengthens students critical thinking skills, sparks classroom discussion, and also...
We like to think of ourselves as possessing an essential self, a core identity that is who we really are, regardless of where we live, work, or play. But places actually make us much more than we might think, argues Japonica Brown-Saracino in this novel ethnographic study of lesbian, bisexual, and queer individuals in four small cities across the United States. Taking us into communities in Ithaca, New York; San Luis Obispo, California; Greenfield, Massachusetts; and Portland, Maine; Brown-Saracino shows how LBQ migrants craft a unique sense of self that corresponds to their new...
We like to think of ourselves as possessing an essential self, a core identity that is who we really are, regardless of where we live, work, or...
