Hanhardt, Christina B.
Contents: "The white ghetto" : sexual deviancy, police accountability, and the 1960s war on poverty -- Butterflies, whistles, and fists: safe streets patrols and the "new" gay ghetto -- "Count the contradictions" : theorizing race, gender, and sexuality in urban space -- Visibility and victimization: hate crime and the geography of punishment -- "Canaries of the creative age" : risk and real estate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Duke University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.766 HANBlackburne, Livia
Summary: "Clementine Chan believes in the power of the written word. Under the pseudonym Hibiscus, she runs a popular blog reviewing tea shops and discussing larger issues within her Chinatown community. She has a loyal, kind following, save for this one sour grape named BobaBoy888. Danny Mok is allergic to change, and the gentrification seeping into Chinatown breaks his heart. He channels his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLAAdia, Jade
Summary: Rhea and her friends Zeke and Malachi are South L.A. born and raised. The old neighborhood is fading away, and more white people are flocking to this little urban paradise for its cheap rent, transforming the place they call home. When an eviction notice from a greedy landlord threatens to split up the crew, Rhea and her friends use social media to form a fake gang in hopes of scaring off...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ADISmith, Juliana "Jewels"
Summary: "This unflinching visual and literary tour-de-force tackles the most pressing issues of the day--including racism, patriarchy, gentrification, police violence, and the housing crisis--with humor and biting satire. When gentrification strikes the neighborhood surrounding Ronald Reagan University, Naima Pepper recruits a group of disgruntled undergrads of color to launch the first and only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PM Press 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 SMIWilliams, Eric Kostiuk
Summary: City residents are faced with accelerated renovations, increasing rent, and dwindling affordable housing. Facing eviction, our heroes set out to find the source of the gentrification wave and save their neighbors from a dystopic, capitalistic endgame that would leave the world full of uninhabited upscale homes that very few have the means to afford.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Koyama Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WILZoboi, Ibi Aanu
Summary: When her first mission brings her to the Brooklyn neighborhood of Brownsville, Okoye, discovering the truth about a manipulative real-estate mogul, is torn between fulfilling her duty to Wakanda or listening to her own heart and standing up for the people of Brownsville.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ZOBCole, Alyssa
Summary: Sydney Green starts a Brooklyn walking tour and finds an unlikely assistant in her neighbor Theo. But their deep dive into history quickly becomes a dizzying descent into paranoia and fear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COLCole, Alyssa
Summary: "Sydney Green is Brooklyn born and raised, but her beloved neighborhood seems to change every time she blinks. Condos are sprouting like weeds, FOR SALE signs are popping up overnight, and the neighbors she's known all her life are disappearing. To hold onto her community's past and present, Sydney channels her frustration into a walking tour and finds an unlikely and unwanted assistant in one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Cole 2020Sexton, Margaret Wilkerson
Summary: At home they are just sisters, but on stage, they are The Salvations. Ruth, Esther, and Chloe have been singing and dancing in harmony since they could speak. Thanks to the rigorous direction of their mother, Vivian, they've become a bona fide girl group whose shows are the talk of the Jazz-era Fillmore. Now Vivian has scored a once-in-a-lifetime offer from a talent manager, who promises to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SEXZoboi, Ibi Aanu
Summary: Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons, even as her older sister, Janae, starts to fall for the charming Ainsley. She especially...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ZOBZoboi, Ibi Aanu
Summary: Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons, even as her older sister, Janae, starts to fall for the charming Ainsley. She especially...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ZOBSummary: Shot over a ten-year period, this documentary follows the changing times in New York's East Village as seen through the eyes of Josh Pais who grew up on 7th Street.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paradise Acres Productions 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SEVMoore, Anne Elizabeth
Summary: "Taking on the thorny ethics of owning and selling property as a white woman in a majority Black city and a majority Bangladeshi neighborhood with both intelligence and humor, this memoir brings a new perspective to a Detroit that finds itself perpetuallyon the brink of revitalization"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOORE, ANNE ELIZABETH MOOBroaddus, Maurice
Summary: "A young graffiti artist learns to fight smart against the gentrification threatening her neighborhood"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BRONatera, Cleyvis
Summary: "An exhilarating debut novel about members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radically different paths when faced with encroaching gentrification, for readers of Such a Fun Age and Dominicana. The Guerreros have lived in Nothar Park, a predominantly Dominican part of the city, for over twenty years. When the crash of a wrecking ball signals the demolition of an old neighboring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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Onomae, Louisa
Summary: Chinelo is all about her neighborhood Ginger East, but when her friend Kate's parent's store is vandalized and the vandal still at large, Nelo and her beloved Ginger East are shaken to their core. Chinelo, 'Nelo' as her best friend Kate calls her, is all about her neighborhood Ginger East, but it isn't what it used to be though. After a deadly incident at the local arcade, most of her friends'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ONOGiles, Chrystal D.
Summary: "Sixth-grader Wes Henderson sets out to save the Oaks, the neighborhood where he's lived his whole life, from being sold to a real estate developer"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "The Exiles" of the title are displaced Native Americans, living in late 1950s Los Angeles on Bunker Hill, a depressed area connected to the rest of the city by the Angels Flight trolley. The Indians were already exiles, from the moment they lost their ancestral lands and were confined to reservations. Starting on Friday afternoon and closing Saturday morning, the film follows pregnant Yvonne,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milestone Film & Video 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EXIAnthony, Gretchen
Summary: All it takes is the right book to turn a Book Hater into a Book Lover. That was Elliott's belief and the reason why he started The Book Haters' Book Club, a newsletter of reading recommendations for the self-proclaimed "nonreader." As the beloved co-owner of Over the Rainbow Bookstore, Elliott's passion and gift was recommending books to customers. Now, after his sudden death, his grief-ridden...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANTMiller, Sam J.
Summary: "From Nebula Award winner Sam J. Miller comes a frightening and uncanny ghost story about a rapidly changing city in upstate New York and the mysterious forces that threaten it"-- Ronan Szepessy promised himself he'd never return to Hudson. The sleepy upstate town was no place for a restless gay photographer. But his father is ill and New York City's distractions have become too much for him....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILSexton, Margaret Wilkerson
Summary: At home they are just sisters, but on stage, they are The Salvations. Ruth, Esther, and Chloe have been singing and dancing in harmony since they could speak. Thanks to the rigorous direction of their mother, Vivian, they've become a bona fide girl group whose shows are the talk of the Jazz-era Fillmore. Now Vivian has scored a once-in-a-lifetime offer from a talent manager, who promises to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEXChau, C. K.
Summary: "When Elizabeth Chen's ever-hustling realtor mother finally sells the beloved if derelict community center down the block, the new owners don't look like typical New York City buyers. Brendan Lee and Darcy Wong are good Chinese boys with Hong Kong money. Clean-cut and charismatic, they say they are committed to cleaning up the neighborhood. To Elizabeth, that only means one thing: Darcy is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAEhrenhalt, Alan
Summary: "Alan Ehrenhalt, one of our leading urbanologists, takes us to cities across the country to reveal how the roles of America's cities and suburbs are changing places--young adults and affluent retirees moving in, while immigrants and the less affluent aremoving out--and the implications for the future of our society. How will our nation be changed by the populations shifting in and out of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.76 EHRGibson, D. W. (David-William)
Summary: If you live in a city - and every year, more and more Americans do - you've seen firsthand how gentrification has transformed our surroundings, altering the way cities look, feel, cost, and even smell. Over the last few years, journalists, policymakers, critics, and historians have all tried to explain just what it is that happens when new money and new residents flow into established...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2015