https://padlet.com/wrightza/xloxx4lqasot6xmz Gentrification en-us 2023-04-18 14:07:34 UTC 2023-04-26 20:01:59 UTC hello@padlet.com wrightza https://padlet.com/wrightza/xloxx4lqasot6xmz/wish/2558728617 2023-04-18 14:44:22 UTC https://padlet.com/wrightza/xloxx4lqasot6xmz/wish/2558728617 wrightza https://padlet.com/wrightza/xloxx4lqasot6xmz/wish/2558735844 How do places and spaces change over time and who benefits from these changes?

How do racial and class identities affect people's opinions on communities and neighborhoods?]]> 2023-04-18 14:48:59 UTC https://padlet.com/wrightza/xloxx4lqasot6xmz/wish/2558735844 wrightza https://padlet.com/wrightza/xloxx4lqasot6xmz/wish/2558744041 Maya and Nikki are twins who have done and agreed on everything together. When Nikki starts hanging out with richer (and whiter) friends, Maya doesn't understand how Nikki can turn her back on Maya and their neighborhood in Portland. Maya questions her identity and tries to figure out her place as she weighs the changes happening around her.]]> 2023-04-18 14:53:49 UTC https://padlet.com/wrightza/xloxx4lqasot6xmz/wish/2558744041 wrightza https://padlet.com/wrightza/xloxx4lqasot6xmz/wish/2558747976 A fantastical story about a boy named Jax being babysat by his neighbor in Brooklyn, while his mother fights their eviction notice. His neighbor just happens to be a witch. Jax must go on a journey to save a few dragons as a favor to the witch. ]]> 2023-04-18 14:56:14 UTC https://padlet.com/wrightza/xloxx4lqasot6xmz/wish/2558747976 wrightza https://padlet.com/wrightza/xloxx4lqasot6xmz/wish/2558751605 Arturo is a Cuban-American teenager living in Miami. He lives and works with his family in a small restaurant ran by his Abuela, which is endangered by the potential development of new high-rise apartments for wealthier citizens.]]> 2023-04-18 14:58:28 UTC https://padlet.com/wrightza/xloxx4lqasot6xmz/wish/2558751605 wrightza https://padlet.com/wrightza/xloxx4lqasot6xmz/wish/2558755733 A YA novel-in-verse about a Puerto Rican girl named Sarai and her sister Estrella in Brooklyn. Through their poetry, readers empathize with the economic and personal problems of the two young women. ]]> 2023-04-18 15:00:51 UTC https://padlet.com/wrightza/xloxx4lqasot6xmz/wish/2558755733 wrightza https://padlet.com/wrightza/xloxx4lqasot6xmz/wish/2558763586 Penelope is forced to moved back home to her former neighborhood in Brooklyn to care for her father after her mother, Mirella, left the family to back to the Dominican Republic. Through the lens of a gentrified Brooklyn, Penelope is forced to reconnect with her mother in this YA novel. ]]> 2023-04-18 15:06:03 UTC https://padlet.com/wrightza/xloxx4lqasot6xmz/wish/2558763586 wrightza https://padlet.com/wrightza/xloxx4lqasot6xmz/wish/2558767582 A Ted Talk from an urban planning scholar who teaches on Columbia University. In her 14 minute speech, Dr. Sutton describes the unintended (and intended) outcomes of neighborhood revitalization, including the idea that when someone moves in, another person is forced to move out. ]]> 2023-04-18 15:08:27 UTC https://padlet.com/wrightza/xloxx4lqasot6xmz/wish/2558767582 wrightza https://padlet.com/wrightza/xloxx4lqasot6xmz/wish/2558772139 An article from Teen Vogue that describes the process of gentrification. It describes the arguments some people make for the practice and why it really doesn't bring that much diversity. It also makes the argument that many tensions between citizens in urban areas and the police is one of the outcomes of gentrification. ]]> 2023-04-18 15:11:32 UTC https://padlet.com/wrightza/xloxx4lqasot6xmz/wish/2558772139 wrightza https://padlet.com/wrightza/xloxx4lqasot6xmz/wish/2558779686 A clean remix of a hip hop song from artist, "Gift of Gab". The song is about a neighborhood changed by rapid gentrification and the artist's perspective as a person of color living in it. Lyrical example: It's like this place has lost the essence of the place I'm from
Went to the barbershop I used to frequent, place is run
Out of business and everyone I knew is straight just gone]]> 2023-04-18 15:16:39 UTC https://padlet.com/wrightza/xloxx4lqasot6xmz/wish/2558779686 wrightza https://padlet.com/wrightza/xloxx4lqasot6xmz/wish/2558785850 A parody of the popular board game "Settlers of Catan". In this version, rather than settling your own area, you are a young adult with inherited wealth settling "cheap" neighborhoods in Brooklyn. Alongside your residence comes high-end coffee shops and designer brand clothing stores. ]]> 2023-04-18 15:20:49 UTC https://padlet.com/wrightza/xloxx4lqasot6xmz/wish/2558785850 wrightza https://padlet.com/wrightza/xloxx4lqasot6xmz/wish/2558790440 A video game called Donut Country is an allegory for gentrification in Los Angeles. The gameplay entails players using holes to swallow up animal residences and places of business as part of a moneymaking scheme by racoons. The racoons represent the powers in the community who will stop at nothing to make profit, including leaving other members of the community to destitution.]]> 2023-04-18 15:24:07 UTC https://padlet.com/wrightza/xloxx4lqasot6xmz/wish/2558790440 wrightza https://padlet.com/wrightza/xloxx4lqasot6xmz/wish/2560591638 A non-fiction sociological perspective of gentrification in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The book shows eight families living in the poorest areas of Milwaukee, where the dividing line between rich and poor classes is not more than a block between one another.]]> 2023-04-19 18:34:33 UTC https://padlet.com/wrightza/xloxx4lqasot6xmz/wish/2560591638 wrightza https://padlet.com/wrightza/xloxx4lqasot6xmz/wish/2560593252 June is a 6th grader that has just moved into a homeless shelter called Huey House with her family. Tyrell has lived at Huey House for 3 years and considers it home. Both kids become fast friends and work together to save Huey House from outside forces that want to tear it down for "redevelopment" purposes.]]> 2023-04-19 18:35:51 UTC https://padlet.com/wrightza/xloxx4lqasot6xmz/wish/2560593252 wrightza https://padlet.com/wrightza/xloxx4lqasot6xmz/wish/2560597496 A bilingual children's book about Chicano Park in San Diego. In the 1970's, the city of San Diego wanted to take over the land the park sits on to build a highway. The primarily Spanish-speaking members of the community occupied the land and prevented them from building infrastructure for that highway, instead forcing the city to build the park for the community, instead. ]]> 2023-04-19 18:39:19 UTC https://padlet.com/wrightza/xloxx4lqasot6xmz/wish/2560597496 wrightza https://padlet.com/wrightza/xloxx4lqasot6xmz/wish/2560602342 A children's book about a former Black community in Novia Scotia that over time wasn't developed with proper infrastructure by the all-white government. In the 1960's, the Canadian government demolished the settlement.]]> 2023-04-19 18:43:39 UTC https://padlet.com/wrightza/xloxx4lqasot6xmz/wish/2560602342 wrightza https://padlet.com/wrightza/xloxx4lqasot6xmz/wish/2560604792 Pride: A Pride and Prejudice Remix is a retelling of Jane Austen's classic novel, Pride and Prejudice. Set in present-day Brooklyn, the protagonist Zuri contends with the wealthy Darcy family that has recently moved in. Zuri falls in love, gets ready for college, and begins to understand the fundamental changes in her neighborhood and how they affect her own life. ]]> 2023-04-19 18:45:45 UTC https://padlet.com/wrightza/xloxx4lqasot6xmz/wish/2560604792