Doctoral Dissertation Research: Race, Entrepreneurship, and Urban Revitalization

博士论文研究：种族、创业与城市复兴

• 批准号: 1802821
• 负责人: Sabrina Pendergrass
• 金额: $ 1.18万
• 依托单位: University of Virginia Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-03-15 至 2019-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1802821&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Race; Entrepreneurship

The past two decades have seen a period of urban transformation guided by a reliance on gentrification to improve cities, which has both costs and benefits. However, few studies examine the ways that local small businesses fare in the context of gentrification. This project investigates how gentrification-based redevelopment impacts urban black-owned businesses compared to urban white-owned businesses. Considering that neighborhood conditions, especially in cities, are shaped by the commercial enterprises that serve the community, understanding the varied experiences of black business-ownership and white business-ownership during redevelopment will inform public discourse regarding wealth attainment, employment, and neighborhood conditions. Furthermore, this project will have practical implications for public policies aiming to encourage more inclusive redevelopment programs and to develop infrastructure that will more effectively support commercial and residential retention. This project employs a mixed-method design to address three research questions. First, the U.S. Census: Survey of Business Owners (SBO) is used to answer questions regarding the spatial and temporal trends in black and white business development in Detroit, Michigan between 1997 and 2012. These data will be used to illustrate and compare businesses in size, number of paid employees, and receipts. Second, archival material from two prominent Detroit newspapers published between 1997 and 2018 are used to examine how the incorporation of black-owned businesses in media accounts of redevelopment compare to the incorporation of white-owned businesses. Finally, through in-depth, qualitative interviews and ethnographic observation, this project investigates how black and white business-owners differ in the ways they perceive and negotiate access to and ownership over local business resources, such as capital investment, consumers, and networks.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

在过去的二十年中，有一段时间的城市转型为指导，以依靠高档化改善城市，这既有成本又有收益。 但是，很少有研究研究当地小型企业在绅士化背景下的表现方式。 该项目调查了与城市白人拥有的企业相比，基于高档化的重建如何影响城市黑人拥有的企业。考虑到社区状况，尤其是在城市中，是由服务社区服务的商业企业所塑造的，因此了解黑人业务所有权和重建期间白人业务所有权的各种经历将为有关财富成就，就业和邻里状况的公众讨论提供信息。此外，该项目将对旨在鼓励更具包容性重建计划的公共政策产生实际影响，并开发将更有效地支持商业和住宅保留率的基础设施。该项目采用混合方法设计来解决三个研究问题。首先，美国人口普查：企业主调查（SBO）用于回答有关1997年至2012年之间底特律的黑白业务发展的空间和时间趋势的问题。这些数据将用于说明和比较规模，付费员工数量，付费员工的数量和收入。其次，使用1997年至2018年发表的两家底特律著名报纸的档案材料用于研究与白人拥有企业的合并相比，将黑人拥有的企业纳入媒体的媒体帐户。最后，通过深入的定性访谈和民族志观察，该项目调查了黑人和白人企业所有者在他们感知和谈判与本地企业资源获得和所有权的方式方面有何不同，例如资本投资，消费者和网络等。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过评估了基金会的智能委员会和广泛的评估，并以评估范围来支持支持。