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Liren Ma - "Too Much Bubble Tea": The Promise and Pearls of Minority Gentrification

In mainstream media accounts, gentrification is usually portrayed as a monolithic process of wealthy, college-educated whites moving into historically underinvested neighborhoods and displacing longtime, low-income minority residents. However, in the past couple of decades, there has been a growing number of low-income minority neighborhoods experiencing dramatic influxes in gentrifiers of the same race. The literature on minority gentrification has focused on whether this phenomenon leads to different outcomes for vulnerable neighborhoods than white gentrification does…

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Alice Cheng - The Socioeconomic Effects of Displacement from Racial Violence: Evidence from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre was one of the most devastating yet overlooked acts of racial violence in American history. During the Massacre, a White mob attacked the predominantly Black Greenwood District in Tulsa and burned Greenwood’s buildings, displacing about 1,000 African Americans and killing an estimated 300. With census data from 1910 to 1930, I examine the socioeconomic and household composition effects of the Massacre on African American residents of Tulsa. Using both a pooled cross-section and panel data analysis, I consistently determine a…

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