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Book Review: Brown in Baltimore: Schools Desegregation and the Limits of Liberalism

Book Review: Brown in Baltimore: Schools Desegregation and the Limits of Liberalism Book Reviews ANEIGHBORHOOD THAT NEVER CHANGES:GENTRIFICATION,SOCIAL PRESERVATION, AND THE SEARCH FOR AUTHENTICITY, by Japonica Brown-Saracino. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-226-07663-8 (paperback); 334 pp. Reviewed by Larry Bennett Department of Political Science, DePaul University Japonica Brown-Saracino’s A Neighborhood That Never Changes is, in fact, not a study of a neighborhood that has resisted or otherwise deflected social change. Brown-Saracino’s focus instead is 160 residents of four communities that have experienced substantial property value appreciation and an influx of new residents. I have used the term com- munity to further specify a particularity of Brown-Saracino’s study. Her research sites are two gentrifying neighborhoods (Argyle, Andersonville) on Chicago’s North Side, Province- town, Massachusetts, at the tip of Cape Cod, and a near-coastal farming hamlet, Dresden, Maine. In short, Brown-Saracino defines gentrification broadly, as a process occurring both in highly urbanized and less urbanized places. Brown-Saracino’s deeper claim, and the heart of her analysis, is that the process of gentrification is more complicated than many observers have realized, in large part because the attitudes and behaviors of gentri- fiers are more diverse than most researchers have reported. Brown-Saracino’s gentrifier-subjects (her interviewees also include community “old- timers”) fall into three categories: http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City & Community (Fixed 2) SAGE

Book Review: Brown in Baltimore: Schools Desegregation and the Limits of Liberalism

Henig, Jeffrey R.
City & Community (Fixed 2) , Volume 10 (3): 1 – Sep 1, 2011
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Book Reviews ANEIGHBORHOOD THAT NEVER CHANGES:GENTRIFICATION,SOCIAL PRESERVATION, AND THE SEARCH FOR AUTHENTICITY, by Japonica Brown-Saracino. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-226-07663-8 (paperback); 334 pp. Reviewed by Larry Bennett Department of Political Science, DePaul University Japonica Brown-Saracino’s A Neighborhood That Never Changes is, in fact, not a study of a neighborhood that has resisted or otherwise deflected social change. Brown-Saracino’s focus instead is 160 residents of four communities that have experienced substantial property value appreciation and an influx of new residents. I have used the term com- munity to further specify a particularity of Brown-Saracino’s study. Her research sites are two gentrifying neighborhoods (Argyle, Andersonville) on Chicago’s North Side, Province- town, Massachusetts, at the tip of Cape Cod, and a near-coastal farming hamlet, Dresden, Maine. In short, Brown-Saracino defines gentrification broadly, as a process occurring both in highly urbanized and less urbanized places. Brown-Saracino’s deeper claim, and the heart of her analysis, is that the process of gentrification is more complicated than many observers have realized, in large part because the attitudes and behaviors of gentri- fiers are more diverse than most researchers have reported. Brown-Saracino’s gentrifier-subjects (her interviewees also include community “old- timers”) fall into three categories:

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