Mr Zawacki
ENG 100 ( 4:00pm – 5:50pm)
September 16, 2014.
Gentrification’s insidious violence: The truth about American cities.
Gentrification is the shift in urban communities towards wealthier residents or businesses and increasing property value of an urban city. The best of the three articles is Gentrification’s insidious violence: The truth about American cities. Because, it really gives analysis on the gentrification of American cities and refer to one of the articles which is “Is Gentrification all Bad? by Justin Davidson which examine the first wave of gentrifiers deeper in the way I have heard it.
According to Daniel Jose older, too many claim white people are at risk in communities of color. While film narratives of white folks in low-income neighborhoods tend to focus on how endangered they are by a gangland black or brown menace, this patient was singular in that he was literally the only victim of white and black violence.
"What is distinctively 'American' is not necessarily the amount or kind of violence that characterizes our history," Richard Slotkin writes, "but the mythic significance we have assigned to the kinds of violence we have actually experienced, the forms of symbolic violence we imagine or invent, and the political uses to which we put that symbolism." Here's a show that places itself in the epicenter of a gentrifying city with gentrifiers for characters it is essentially a show about gentrification that refuses to address gentrification.
Conclusively, the mythology of safety and racial coding needs our utmost attention as a marker of change for the insidious gentrification violence of American cities. Since, the American traditions of racism and capitalism is power played by mechanics of culture, politics, economic and racial disparity. To forge ahead, we require an outrageousness that sees beyond the tired tropes and easy outs that mass media provides which demands organization with clarity about privilege and the