Gentrification Insidious Violence Analysis

Gentrification 's Insidious Violence; The Truth about American Cities
Ever wonder what will happen if people band together to try to fix whole communities? What would happen if these cities now seen as blackened areas disappeared completely? What would happen to the infrastructure, and most importantly what would happen to those already living there? These very important and current issues are answered in "Gentrification 's Insidious Violence; The Truth about American Cities" written by Daniel Jose Older in order to change the view of the everyday and almost seen as a common American, the "middle-class white republican." The definition of gentrification is the buying and renovating of houses and stores in broken down neighborhoods by wealthier people, often displacing low income families and small businesses. Gentrification is a horrific movement masked in glory and development of cities that do not need removal but instead need to be built up with what they have and the people populating that area. …show more content…
Instead of whites being seen as in danger of injury in colored neighborhoods, that it is truly the colored people who are in danger. Older is an author of a few books and articles, a composer of music for a band that he leads, and an editor of an anthology and music texts. He starts out this text with a story from his times as a paramedic and he is with a patient who is white who was a victim of black on white crime, people generally think this would be a normal occurrence considering where the man was found injured. But on the contrary Older says this is the only victim of black on white crime that he has seen in ten whole years of him being employed as a paramedic. He believes that there is a mytho-political view of violence that occurs in the "hood" and the crime categories are all terrible and classified as the