A Good Reputation : How Residents Fight for an American Barrio Hardback
by Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, Sarah Mayorga
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A historic Houston barrio provides an illuminating lens on neighborhood reputation. Neighborhoods have the power to form significant parts of our worlds and identities.
A neighborhood’s reputation, however, doesn’t always match up to how residents see themselves or wish to be seen.
The distance between residents’ desires and their environment can profoundly shape neighborhood life. In A Good Reputation, sociologists Elizabeth Korver-Glenn and Sarah Mayorga delve into the development and transformation of the reputation of Northside, a predominantly Latinx barrio in Houston.
Drawing on two years of ethnographic research and in-depth interviews with residents, developers, and other neighborhood stakeholders, the authors show that people’s perceptions of their neighborhoods are essential to understanding urban inequality and poverty.
Korver-Glenn and Mayorga’s empirically detailed account of disputes over neighborhood reputation helps readers understand the complexity of high-poverty urban neighborhoods, demonstrating that gentrification is a more complicated and irregular process than existing accounts of urban inequality would suggest.
Offering insightful theoretical analysis and compelling narrative threads from understudied communities, A Good Reputation will yield insights for scholars of race and ethnicity, urban planning, and beyond.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:208 pages, 14 halftones, 1 tables
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:21/06/2024
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- ISBN:9780226825779
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Pre-Order
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:208 pages, 14 halftones, 1 tables
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:21/06/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9780226825779
