Manzo, Lidia (2013) Seeing Gentrification behind the Window of a Sicilian Bakery: Reflexive Ethnography and documentary practice in Brooklyn. Streetnotes, 21. pp. 25-29. ISSN 2159-2926
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Abstract
What scholars think of as gentrification is often associated with more expensive and aesthetically
elegant cafes, restaurants, and boutiques that appeal to the high-class consumers’ tastes. Yet,
as I have discussed, it also means the displacement of working class residents and their stores.
There happened to a bakery in the south part of Park Slope, a place where coffee cost less than
a dollar, but the rent jumped up from four thousand dollars a month to a whopping five thousand
dollars a month. So, what might be the real face of this transition? Perhaps the one of Signora
Enrica, one of two old Sicilian sisters that used to own an old-fashion Italian Bakery. In the photo
(See Figure 1, Seeing the neighborhood change) it is the last day their store will be open and she
is there, working as always, behind the counter.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Gentrification; displacement; Reflexive Ethnography; documentary practice; Brooklyn; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography |
Item ID: | 7904 |
Depositing User: | Lidia Manzo |
Date Deposited: | 13 Feb 2017 15:27 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Streetnotes |
Publisher: | University of California |
Refereed: | Yes |
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URI: | https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/7904 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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