Good Neighbors
Gentrifying Diversity in Boston's South End
Published on 1. June 2015
288 pages
978-1-78168-950-9 (ISBN)
Description
Does gentrification destroy diversity? Or does it thrive on it? Boston's South End, a legendary working-class neighborhood with the largest Victorian brick row house district in the United States and a celebrated reputation for diversity, has become in recent years a flashpoint for the problems of gentrification. It has born witness to the kind of rapid transformation leading to pitched battles over the class and race politics throughout the country and indeed the contemporary world.
This subtle study of a storied urban neighborhood reveals the way that upper-middle-class newcomers have positioned themselves as champions of diversity, and how their mobilization around this key concept has reordered class divisions rather than abolished them.
This subtle study of a storied urban neighborhood reveals the way that upper-middle-class newcomers have positioned themselves as champions of diversity, and how their mobilization around this key concept has reordered class divisions rather than abolished them.
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Ebook UK & RoW
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-78168-950-9 (9781781689509)
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06/2015
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Persons
Sylvie Tissot (born in 1971) is a French sociologist and feminist activist. She teaches Political Science at the Universit¿ de Vincennes-Saint Denis-Paris VIII. .
Content
- Intro
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: A Journey into the Liberal Upper Middle Class
- The discovery of the South End
- Proximity to and distance from the research subjects
- Chapter 2: The Birth of a Local Elite in a Working-Class Neighborhood
- The triumph of resident participation .
- . for which residents?
- A neighborhood elite
- Chapter 3: Philanthropic Adventurers
- Private property and social conscience
- Love and control of diversity
- Chapter 4: Creating Historical Heritage
- Connoisseurs, conservatives
- Brick and wrought iron
- Cultural distinction versus public housing
- An historic neighborhood or an artistic one?
- Chapter 5: Conquering the Nooks and Crannies
- Controlling and marking space
- Social diversity, animal diversity
- Conclusion: The Making of the Liberal Upper Middle Class
- A mobilized class
- Index
