2. Gentrification

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https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/talk-activism/forum/

We will be reading the following:

  1. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/magazine/how-chicagos-housing-crisis-ignited-a-new-form-of-activism.html [for 3/13]
  2. https://newrepublic.com/article/125056/rahm-emanuels-next-scandal-chicagos-public-housing [will read in class 3/13]
  3. http://nymag.com/news/features/housing-projects-2012-9/ [will read in class 3/13]
  4. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/13/south-bronx-hip-hop-gentrification-the-get-down [3/15]
  5. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/11/is-gentrification-really-a-problem [3/15]
  6. http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/gentrification-bad-word/396908/ [3/15]
  7. Excerpt from White Trash [3/20]
  8. Excerpt from Evicted [3/22]

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