A Good Reputation: How Residents Fight for an American Barrio - Couverture souple

Korver-Glenn, Elizabeth; Mayorga, Sarah

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226833852 ISBN 13 : 9780226833859

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2024

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Elizabeth Korver-Glenn is assistant professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Race Brokers: Housing Markets and Segregation in 21st Century America.


Sarah Mayorga is associate professor of sociology at Brandeis University. She is the author of Urban Specters: The Everyday Harms of Racial Capitalism and Behind the White Picket Fence: Power and Privilege in a Multiethnic Neighborhood.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226833852
• ISBN 13: 9780226833859
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
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