Harlem. History of gentrification

The capital of black America, which was as much a center of art and culture as a place of political commitments, is disappearing. The fault lies in a long process of eviction that combines the desires of developers, rising rents that drive out the poorest, and the establishment of affluent white classes – without to forget how communities came from South America. A biologist and expert in the United States, the author provides the keys to this humanity, which has accelerated since the beginning of the 1980s and which many could not move popular stop. Let’s read with attention the chapter dedicated to the somewhat brutal expansion of the famous Columbia University, one of the largest real estate owners in New York. In his conflict with the residents of East Harlem, class scorn and urban murder fueled an unrelenting logic of gentrification.