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“What’s Happened to the People?” Gentrification and Racial Segregation in Brooklyn

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Journal of African American Studies, Volume: 24, Issue: 4, Pages: 549 - 572

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DOI (Published version): 10.1007/s12111-020-09499-y

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This article explores the relationship between gentrification and racial segregation in Brooklyn, New York with an emphasis on Black Brooklyn. With more than 2.6 million residents, if Brooklyn was a city, it would be the fourth largest in the USA. Brooklyn is the home of approximately 788,000 Blacks...

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ISSN: 1559-1646 1936-4741
Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2020
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