Politicizing, Placing, and Performing Narratives of Gentrification in an Urban Community

Gentrification is typically the result of investment in a community by local government, community activists, or business groups, and can often spur economic development, attract business, and lower crime rates. Such experiences, which include and move beyond youth involvement with online social networking systems to media engagements around identity reconstructions and reconfigurations, hold the promise of re imagining various spaces and forms of literacy. Documenting, synthesizing, and theorizing about these experiences can yield long-lasting educational implications for understanding how young people take up literacy across contexts, what literacy acts they perform, and why they participate in such performances play significant roles in “transforming schools” and increasing young people’s involvement with literacy.

By- Haley Brown

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