Good Reputation

How Residents Fight for an American Barrio

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvElizabeth Korver-Glenn,Sarah Mayorga

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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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Utgivningsdatum2024-05-28
Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt340 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor208
FörlagThe University of Chicago Press
ISBN9780226833859

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Elizabeth Korver-Glenn is assistant professor of sociology at University of North Carolina, 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 in Waltham, MA. 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.

"In this brilliantly designed and executed ethnographic study, Elizabeth Korver-Glenn and Sarah Mayorga reveal the complex and contradictory forces seeking to shape the reputation of a high poverty Latinx neighborhood. While the imperatives of racial capitalism promote an ethos of development based on courting outside investment and disavowing the area’s Black and Brown populations and cultures, a counter-aesthetic emerges from the grass roots grounded in welcoming signs and symbols of diversity as desirable. Scholars and policy makers have long understood how urban inhabitants stage battles over resources, rights, and recognition; Korver-Glenn and Mayorga make it clear that contests over reputation play essential roles in those conflicts as well."