Derek Hyra: Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2017, 223 pp., ISBN-13: 9780-226-44953-1

《Derek Hyra: Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2017, 223 pp., ISBN-13: 9780-226-44953-1》

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摘要: My interest in gentrification goes back to 1980 when I was a visiting scholar at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development and co-authored Residential Displacement: An Update (1981), the US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD’s) Report to Congress. Since then most of the literature on gentrification has focused on residential displacement. In contrast, Race, Class and Politics in the Capuccinno City by Derek Hyra focuses on whether gentrification benefits low-income residents who remain in place. Hyra’s core argument is that the poor rarely benefit from gentrification. Cappuccinno coffee is an apt metaphor for describing Washington DC’s demographic shifts with a rapidly growing White population and the impacts of these shifts on inner city communities. In DC, the formerly low-income, Black working-class communities—the coffee—have begun to experience a White influx—the steamed milk—and these neighborhoods have become both lighter in hue and more expensive (p....