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Tag Archives: structuring structures
Gentrification: No Resting Place, Pt.2
“West Oakland is situated on the Bay side of Highway 980 and is easily accessible by public transportation including BARTand buses. If you are an urban pioneer who is looking to buy somewhere before it really booms, look into West Oakland” (Red Oak Realty, 2012 para. 4). West Oakland is being discovered and repopulated by pioneers of a different stripe. Continue reading →
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Tagged aggressive policing in west oakland, anzinga, contested spaces, cycles of poverty in west oakland, cypress freeway, displacement of communities of color, dissolution of black power, gentrification, history of west oakland, oakland housing authority, peralta villa, politics, population control, root causes of systemic unemployment in West Oakland, structuring structures, systemic racism, west oakland land use patterns
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Gentrification: No Resting Place, Pt.1
The Bottoms in West Oakland was once a desirable destination for North American Africans recently freed from chattel slavery. Ex-slaves and Pullman Porters wrote a chapter in this neighborhood’s history. This chapter, like many that followed, is informed by race. Continue reading →
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Tagged ayodele wordslanger nzinga, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, displacement, gentrification, Gertrude Stein, North American African Perspective, Oakland, politics, Pullman porter, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area, structuring structures, systemic racism, United States, West Oakland, West Oakland Oakland California
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