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- ISSN: 0360-9170
- E-ISSN: 1943-2402
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Research Directions: ”The White-ification of the Hood’: Power, Politics, and Youth Performing Narratives of Community
- Source: Language Arts, Volume 85, Issue 1, Sep 2007, p. 61 - 68
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- 01 Sep 2007
Abstract
This study describes how an African American teenager documents the gentrifying urban landscape of New York City’s Harlem, critiques the increasing presence of whiteness in the area, and makes connections between his urban community and the rural community of a 6th grader by performing narratives of place.
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