Gentry!Fication: A Critical Examination of Urban Transformation by Chaun Webster

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GeNtry!fication: Or The Scene Of The Crime by Chaun Webster (Noemi Press, paperback)

Publication Date: April 1, 2018

Publisher Marketing: Poetry. African & African American Studies. GENTRY!FICATION: OR THE SCENE OF THE CRIME is a labyrinth full of folk tale and sign, definitions and the black subjects who violate them. In a time where many cities across the nation are undergoing massive shifts in who peoples them, particularly in sites once considered abandoned and without value, this book is weapon of memory a stew of din meant to haunt shallow notions of what has remained or been allowed to remain in geographies.

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