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A Good Reputation: How Residents Fight for an American Barrio

A Good Reputation: How Residents Fight for an American Barrio

Korver-Glenn, Elizabeth
Mayorga, Sarah

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General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral SociologyLatino Studies

ISBN10: 0226825779
ISBN13: 9780226825779
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Jul 9 2024
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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