Surviving the times!

Surviving the Market – With Assistance
Many poor people have managed to stay in gentrifying neighborhoods. Not surprisingly, residents appreciate many of the changes taking place in their neighborhoods – increased safety, less overt drug dealing, better transportation, improved governmental responsiveness and more stores. After all, many of these long-term residents have been working to make just these improvements for decades. But they don’t remain merely to appreciate the improvements occurring in their neighborhoods. They remain because these are their communities. Their families, networks and lives are all there.

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“Gentrification did not only affect these neighborhoods economically, but also socially and culturally. Gentrification changes the social environment and established class based and ethnic networks

. New comers bring their own culture to the community. They try to change the physical image of the neighborhood. For instance, they would change the decorations and attractions of the neighborhood. They would install gardens and better parks they think is culturally appropriate. Anderson cited that “as the newcomers wittingly or unwittingly establish a cultural outpost of the larger society, they tend to discount this significant proportion of the host community and are fairly criticized for not following the cultural footsteps of their processors”.

cited: www.socyberty.com/Sociology/Gentrification-and-tourism

“Many of the characteristics of black neighborhoods documented in ethnographies by Elijah Anderson and others can be seen here. For example, Mr. Fletcher (Danny Glover) and Mike (Mos Def) encourage the neighborhood youths to appreciate black heroes (particularly Fats Waller) and the local black history. In Code of the Street, Anderson discusses how black “old heads” serve to remind black youth of their history and encourage moral behavior. However, as Anderson notes, the authority of old heads is declining and this, too, can be seen in the movie. Mr. Fletcher seems to have lost some of the authority he once had and is conflicted about how to best serve the community. The Passaic City Council wants to demolish the historical building where Mr. Fletcher’s video store is located and replace it with an ugly and generic looking housing development. Though Mr. Fletcher is troubled by the arrival of a corporate video store into the neighborhood, he also tries to steal their core ideas (DVDs only, action/adventure and comedies only, uniforms, etc.) to keep his store alive.”

cited: contentanalysis.wordpress.com/tag/gentrification/

video reference for my animation

Comedy and satire

More Precedents

Buster Keaton – “Hard Luck” silent film

The Other side – Gentry

Reference video # 2

Building owner talks the positives of Gentry!

Gentrification – video youtube

Genftrification and Displacement Article

demographic-ecological approaches, sociocultural
studies of gentrification do not focus on aggregate or structural
units of analysis (i.e., populations and their characteristics). Rather,
their explanation is derived from a socio-psychologial perspective
that emphasizes the importance of value systems in interpreting
behavior. Proponents of this point of view suggest that the
increased clustering of middle- and upper-middle-class groups in
inner-city enclaves can best be understood by looking at the values
these people share.It is frequently noted that those who are deciding to live in the
inner city are highly educated young adults. By and large, this
cohort was educated during the middle sixties to early seventies. At
that time, new values were emerging that included a high regard for
community participation, shared living experiences, self-help and
cooperative efforts, and an ecological ideology that stressed
preservation.

Reference Photographs Do the Right Thing / Antz

Cultural Identity

Cultural identity is the (feeling of) identity of a group or culture, or of an individual as far as he or she is influenced by her belonging to a group or culture. Cultural identity is similar to and has overlaps with, but is not synonymous with, identity politics.