We Belong Here: Gentrification, White Spacemaking, and a Black Sense of Place urban fiction shaping the actions we might

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We Belong Here: Gentrification, White Spacemaking, and a Black Sense of Place urban fiction shaping the actions we mightA landmark study that shows how Black residents experience and respond to the rapid transformation of historically Black places. Although Portland, Oregon, is sometimes called Americas Whitest city, Black residents who grew up there made it their own. The neighborhoods of Northeast Portland, also called Albina, were a haven for and a hub of Black community life. But between 1990 and 2010, Albina changed dramaticallyit became majority White. In We