Before Gentrification Urban Geography and economic and social relationships

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Harrison imbues her new storytelling formula with surprising lightness

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Before Gentrification Urban Geography and economic and social relationshipsDraws 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. 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