Summary Of Stacey Sutton's 2015 Tedx Talk

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Hope Hart Professor Maxey-Groege English 102 16 June 2024 Ethos and Pathos of Stacey Sutton’s 2015 Tedx Talk Stacey Sutton’s TedxNewYork talk, “What we don’t understand about gentrification” sheds light on the phenomenon of displacement of low-income communities through financial leveraging of business and housing investors. In her 14-minute talk, she outlines gentrification as “.processes by which higher income or higher status people relocate to or invest in low-income urban neighborhoods” (1:48), and maneuvers the conversation of the problem from four different angles: how it can be understood, what communities are vulnerable to it, the impact it has on such communities, and how it can be prevented. Sutton’s specific geographic study in this talk is the gentrification of New York City, NY. Through anecdotes and examples, Sutton engages the listener’s emotional instincts, while providing tangible …show more content…

Sutton doesn’t insist on community identifiers of gentrification throughout the Tedx Talk, and instead typically just refers to its victims as “low income”, a demographic which is easy for the average listener to relate to. However, it is explained in the first quarter of the talk that the typical victims of gentrification are black and brown people, and says that gentrification is “further confounded by a legacy of racial inequality in America.”(3:01) Integrating identities to the argument can make such a conversation polarizing, but in small doses like the one used here, it helps further simplify this root issue and supports the background cause of gentrification. As most Americans have at least a small, very basic understanding of America’s history of inequality for minorities, it’s not difficult to use this prior knowledge to apply to the topic at

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