Retail Gentrification and Race: The Case of Alberta Street in Portland, Oregon
Retail Gentrification and Race: The Case of Alberta Street in Portland, Oregon
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零售高档化与种族：俄勒冈州波特兰阿尔伯塔街案例
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2011
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Samuel C. Shaw
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Daniel Monroe Sullivan;Samuel C. Shaw
阿尔伯塔街象征着波特兰作为一个城市的形象，拥抱“创意阶级”，排名高的“波西米亚”和拥抱“多样性”。这是一条黑人生意减少、白色生意增加的街道，既有主流的，也有波西米亚的。通过对黑人和白色居民的长期访谈，我们发现种族对于了解他们对新零售业的使用和看法是突出的。许多黑人有消极的感觉，他们使用种族语言来阐明为什么他们不喜欢所提供的产品，以及他们如何感到文化上的排斥。相比之下，长期以来，主流的白色居民完全接受新零售。这些发现应该让那些通过吸引“创意阶层”来促进经济发展的城市停下来：他们可能正在重塑他们的城市和社区-包括他们的零售业-以一种敌视某些形式的多样性的方式，包括长期居住在中产阶级社区的黑人居民。
Alberta Street is emblematic of Portland’s image as a city that embraces the “creative class,” ranking high in being “bohemian” and embracing “diversity.” It is a street that has had a decline in Black businesses and an increase in White ones, both mainstream and bohemian. Through interviews with longtime Black and White residents, we find that race is salient for understanding their use and opinion of the new retail sector. Many Blacks have negative feelings, and they use racial language to articulate why they dislike the products offered and how they feel culturally excluded. Longtime, mainstream White residents, in contrast, fully embrace the new retail. These findings should give pause to cities that promote economic development by making themselves attractive to the “creative class”: They may be refashioning their cities and neighborhoods—including their retail—in a way that is hostile to some forms of diversity, including longtime Black residents in gentrifying neighborhoods.