BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:16948-1629a51174c48b9b1f116e4c7839ac0c@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20261017T055354Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210910T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210910T103000 SUMMARY:Jessi Grieser (University of Tennessee) – Racializing Gentrification thr ough Framing and Erasure DESCRIPTION:“I’ve never known a white person to live on Hill Street:” Ra cializing Gentrification through Framing and Erasure\n\nGentrification\, the “production of urban space for progressively more affluent users” ( Hackworth 2001) is quite possibly the most well-studied phenomenon in ur ban studies. It has\, however\, been seriously under-theorized and under -explored by linguists\, with its studies being limited mostly to studie s of linguistic landscape. In this talk\, I discuss a project in Anacost ia\, Washington\, D.C.\, an historically-Black neighborhood which has un dergone rapid change in the 2010s. I trace three frames of how Black res idents of the neighborhood evaluate white presence in the neighborhood: neutrally\, as a novelty\, negatively\, as a takeover\, and positively\, as diversity. I argue that these three frames have the effect of erasin g the existence of Black newcomers\, which in turn re-produces Big-D dis courses which see gentrification as a purely racial\, rather than econom ic issue. This in turn\, allows the community members to position the ne ighborhood’s Black residents—old and new\, lower income and affluent—as a single cohesive community staking a firm claim on Black urban space.\n \nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/jessi-grieser-univer sity-of-tennessee/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

“I’ve never known a white person to live on Hill St reet:” Racializing Gentrification through Framing and E rasure

Gentrification, the “production of urban space fo r progressively more affluent users” (Hackworth 2001) is quite possibly the most well-studied phenomenon in urban studies. It has, however, been seriously under-theorized and under-explored by linguists, with its stu dies being limited mostly to studies of linguistic landscape. In this ta lk, I discuss a project in Anacostia, Washington, D.C., an historically- Black neighborhood which has undergone rapid change in the 2010s. I trac e three frames of how Black residents of the neighborhood evaluate white presence in the neighborhood: neutrally, as a novelty, negatively, as a takeover, and positively, as diversity. I argue that these three frames have the effect of erasing the existence of Black newcomers, which in t urn re-produces Big-D discourses which see gentrification as a purely ra cial, rather than economic issue. This in turn, allows the community mem bers to position the neighborhood’s Black residents—old and new, lower i ncome and affluent—as a single cohesive community staking a firm claim o n Black urban space.

For more details: https://events.la. psu.edu/event/jessi-grieser-university-of-tennessee/

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