{"product_id":"before-gentrification-the-creation-of-dcs-racial-wealth-gap-hardcover","title":"Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTanya Maria Golash-Boza\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDraws a direct line between redlining, incarceration, and gentrification in an American city.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eBefore Gentrification\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 decimate the Black middle class. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through the stories of those who have lost their homes and livelihoods, Golash-Boza explores how DC came to be the nation's \"murder capital\" and incarceration capital, and why it is now a haven for wealthy White people. This troubling history makes clear that the choice to use prisons and policing to solve problems faced by Black communities in the twentieth century--instead of investing in schools, community centers, social services, health care, and violence prevention--is what made gentrification possible in the twenty-first. \u003ci\u003eBefore Gentrification\u003c\/i\u003e unveils a pattern of anti-Blackness and racial capitalism in DC that has implications for all US cities.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Tanya Maria Golash-Boza weaves personal memory, interviews, and administrative and archival data to uncover the capitalist and carceral systems that caused the downward mobility of striving Black families in Washington, DC. Their losses are the gains of today's gentrifiers. \u003ci\u003eBefore Gentrification\u003c\/i\u003e offers a sophisticated understanding of the mechanisms of racial inequality and represents sociological imagination at its best.\"--Mary Pattillo, author of \u003ci\u003eBlack on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eBefore Gentrification \u003c\/i\u003eis an urgent, subtle, insightful, and critically important contribution. Backed by rich data and sophisticated theory, Golash-Boza persuasively demonstrates how the gentrification of 'Chocolate City' does not occur in isolation, but has been animated by a wave of policies that abandoned the vulnerable through criminalization and economic deprivation. Through this original and well-written text, we are better equipped to understand, critique, and--just possibly--\u003ci\u003er\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eesist\u003c\/i\u003e the contradictions and consequences of neoliberalism and racial capitalism.\"--Marc Lamont Hill, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eSeen and Unseen: Technology, Social Media, and the Fight for Racial Justice\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eBefore Gentrification \u003c\/i\u003etells the overlooked narrative of how the carceral state and gentrified city are connected. Policies of Black community dispossession, disinvestment, and violent police surveillance set the stage for neighborhood reinvestment and racially uneven wealth accumulation. This stark story is told powerfully through intergenerational experiences of middle-class and low-income African American families struggling to survive and thrive in a capitalist system filled with destructive discriminatory structures. This is a must-read for those interested in understanding how anti-Black policy decisions drive mass incarceration, gentrification, and dire racial inequality in Washington, DC, and throughout our nation.\"--Derek Hyra, author of \u003ci\u003eRace, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Blending the sharp insights of a top sociologist and the passion of a proud local, Golash-Boza exposes the myriad ways that mass incarceration scars Black communities, undercuts the foundation of intergenerational mobility, and renders neighborhoods ripe for expropriation.\"--Forrest Stuart, author of \u003ci\u003eDown, Out, and Under Arrest\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eBefore Gentrification\u003c\/i\u003e describes in vivid, gut-wrenching, and often heartbreaking detail how the American dream of homeownership in Washington, DC, became an African American nightmare of dispossession, displacement, and disinvestment. Golash-Boza demonstrates that in the nation's capital, gentrification has meant white racial violence, with state-sponsored, anti-Black carceral policies as its disturbing underside. Based on moving oral testimonies and impressive archival research, \u003ci\u003eBefore Gentrification\u003c\/i\u003e is a critical addition to recent studies of capitalism and racism that should be urgently read by both scholars and policy makers--and anyone committed to racial justice and the elimination of the racial wealth gap.\"--Peter James Hudson, Associate Professor of African American Studies and History, UCLA \u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTanya Maria Golash-Boza \u003c\/b\u003eis the Executive Director of the University of California Washington Center and a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Merced. She is the author of five books that engage with issues such as racism, immigration policy, human rights, and race in Latin America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 05, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51780338516256,"sku":"9780520391161","price":153.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/82eb19fe0d8026fc199127062b697e00_f6702e05-d722-48e2-bb0e-3724ce06a80d.webp?v=1780526458","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/before-gentrification-the-creation-of-dcs-racial-wealth-gap-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}