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Derek S. Hyra is associate professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at American University.

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And here is the non-fiction accompaniment to the novel above. This is a detailed (warning: very detailed) ethnography of the impacts of gentrification and increases in white households in some of the same neighborhoods where Mengestu's novel is set. As with the work of John Jackson in Harlem, the direct voices of longtime residents and business owners are valuable in understanding how changing demographics and attitudes about a neighborhood from outside have real consequences in their everyday lives. What was less useful and could have been more occasional was the intensive detail of retail prices, paint colors, etc. that are already gone not long after publication.… (més)
 
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