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Real Estate Flyers as Documentation of Gentrification

Guerrero, Jose C.

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Title
Real Estate Flyers as Documentation of Gentrification
Author(s)
Guerrero, Jose C.
Issue Date
2021
Keyword(s)
  • gentrification
  • documentation strategy
  • real estate
Abstract
Though the term “gentrification”—a process by which residents in impoverished neighborhoods are displaced and the built environment altered to suit the tastes of wealthier residents—was introduced in 1964, documentary evidence of this phenomenon is still lacking. The author suggests real estate flyers as an appropriate focus for research efforts. The materiality of these documents—paper, photography, and the architectural features they reflect—offers opportunities to expand on extant efforts to document as well as resist gentrification. Examples from the author’s collection of real estate flyers gathered in the neighborhoods of West Oakland, California, are provided. In conclusion, documentary tactics are suggested as a complementary approach to documentation strategy in attempts to capture the sociomaterial dimensions of gentrification.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Illinois School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Series/Report Name or Number
Library Trends 69 (3). Winter 2021
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/109996
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2021.0006
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Copyright 2021 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Library Trends 69 (3) Winter 2021: Everyday Documentation PRIMARY
Library Trends 69 (3) Winter 2021: Everyday Documentation. Edited by Tim Gorichanaz and Ann M. Graf.