Definitions
a process in which a poor area (as of a city) experiences an influx of middle-class or wealthy people, which often results in an increase in property values and the displacement of earlier, poorer residents
What is Gentrification
a means of understanding gentrification and urban redevelopment as a bordering practice that creates structural and cultural exclusion in city space.
a borderland analytic
a “safety zone” that is "designed to break up gang activity by imposing restrictions on gang members within a specific area".
What is a gang injunction zone
What was the group SambaFunk doing at Lake Merritt that caused a local resident to call the police.
Drumming
the action of depriving someone of land, property, or other possessions
What is Dispossession
What is the difference between a “legitimate” and “illegitimate” inhabitant in the borderland
access to wealth and capital
Did the gang injunction zones reduce crime in the areas chosen
No
How much money was the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church charged for singing to loud
$3529 plus penalties of $500 a day if the “noise” continued.
relating to or suggesting of a jail or prison
What is Carceral
the system that normalized the anti-black violence that is present in Black life today.
What is a Plantation
the act that mandated law enforcement agencies to create a database that would identify known gang members in order to convict them
What is The Street Terrorism Enforcement and Prevention Act of 1988
How did SambaFunk respond to the incident at Lake Merritt
They organized a rally at city hall and a another at Lake Merritt
the tool used to define structurally, socially, and spatially that determine whether an area is “safe" or “unsafe” for a given population
What are Borders
the organization controlled by the US government that is responsible for rounding up and deporting migrants
What is ICE
What was noticed about gang injunction zones that made them good tools for Gentrification?
they bordered gentrified neighborhoods or were convenient spots for commuters
Why was the city's decision to change the municipal code to prohibit barbequing at the lake considered anti-black
It was a recreational destination for Black cultural life for decades and was seen as an attempt to erase Blackness from a public space
the representation of a given group or people through ambient noise and music
What is Sound
the establishment of a place's importance by the practices and culture of a community
What is place making
What did the gang injunction zones accomplish
They displaced and controlled the remaining Black and Latino working-class population
What is a common theme in the incidents mentioned in this section of the paper
White residents complaining about the practices and presents of Black and Latino neighbors