Ep.15: The Real Estate Page As Colonial Dispatch
Added 2017-11-08 17:10:11 +0000 UTCReal Estate sections are mostly breezy, fun profiles of the super rich buying up houses and remodeling the ones they already own. Harmless escapist fun? Maybe. But how we write about real estate often reveals casually racist and colonial attitudes that are rarely, if ever, examined.
In this episode we talk about why the way we talk about the real estate business matters and how the white civilizing mission never went away. With guest Aaron Cantú.
The Guest
Aaron Miguel Cantú is a writer for the Santa Fe Reporter, senior editor at The New Inquiry, and contributor to outlets such as The Intercept, The Baffler, The Nation, Vice News, FAIR, Al Jazeera, and elsewhere. Follow him @aaron_con_leche.
Show Notes
Media and the ‘Melting Pot’: Putting a harmonious spin on gentrification
Aaron Cantú | January 1, 2015 | FAIR
When NYT Real Estate Stories Read Like 19th Century Colonial Dispatches
Adam Johnson | May 2, 2016 | FAIR
Adam Johnson | January 1, 2015 | FAIR
Bobby London | September 5, 2017 | The New Inquiry
Remembering The Lost Communities Buried Under Center Field
Janice Llamoca | October 31, 2017 | NPR***
Referenced
Upper Upper West Side Attracting New Settlers
Philip S. Gutis | March 9, 1986 | The New York Times
Ian Fisher | June 23, 1993 | The New York Times
Veterans Remember 'Fort Apache'
Larry McShane | June 30, 2002 | Associated Press
America's Next Great City Is Inside L.A.
Brett Martin | January 6, 2014 | GQ
Detroit: A New American Frontier
Aaron Renn | July 20, 2011 | Yes! Magazine
Racist emails show Chicago official joked about 'safari' tour to see violence in black neighborhoods
Ray Long & Todd Lighty | July 17, 2017 | Chicago Tribune
Everybody's Laughing at the Video of an Angry White Guy Claiming He 'Settled' Brooklyn
September 23, 2015 | Vice***
Recommendations
The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City [PDF]Neil Smith | 1996
Greening the urban frontier: Race, property, and resettlement in Detroit [PDF]Sara Safransky | August 17, 2014 | Geoforum
Is There Room for Black People in the New Detroit?Suzette Hackney | September 28, 2014 | Politico
The Permanent Crisis of Housing
David Madden & Peter Marcuse | October 2, 2016 | Jacobin
The Steady Destruction of America’s Cities
Gillian B. White | March 9, 2017 | The Atlantic
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality and the Fight for the Neighborhood - Peter Moskowitz, Nation Books (2017)
The Work of Mike Davis (available at Verso Books)***
