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来源

JOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS,Vol.40,Issue8,P.1161-1176

语言

英文

关键字

COMMUNITY; RISE

作者单位

[King, Lester O.] Rice Univ, Weiss Sch Nat Sci, Houston, TX 77251 USA. [King, Lester O.] Rice Univ, Weiss Sch Nat Sci, Dept BioSci, Houston, TX 77251 USA. [Lowe, Jeffrey S.] Texas Southern Univ, Barbara Jordan Mickey Leland Sch Publ Affairs, Urban Planning & Environm Policy, Houston, TX 77004 USA. Lowe, JS (reprint author), Texas Southern Univ, Dept Urban Planning & Environm Policy, 3100 Cleburne, Houston, TX 77004 USA. E-Mail: Lowejs@tsu.edu

摘要

This case study describes the beginning stages of community mobilization in highly market-driven Houston, Texas, and the gentrifying Northern Third Ward, one of the city's oldest African American communities. The primary question is how can residents mobilize and resist gentrification in places with an extraordinarily weak community development tradition? Drawing on ethnographic research, the case study illuminates mobilization as an important first step in the community development process that creates a space for dialogue, consciousness raising, and both horizontal and vertical linkages to increase collective action, power, and progress toward the broader movement for social justice.