Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap

by Tanya Maria Golash-Boza

Book Overview

Draws a direct line between redlining, incarceration, and gentrification in an American city.

This book shows how a century of redlining, disinvestment, and the War on Drugs wreaked devastation on Black people and paved the way for gentrification in Washington, DC. In Before Gentrification, Tanya Maria Golash-Boza tracks the cycles of state abandonment and punishment that have shaped the city, revealing how policies and policing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520391179
• ISBN13: 9780520391178
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"