The Fed Up Honeys Re-Present The Gentrification Of The Lower East Side

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With increasing housing prices, it is not bearable to indigenous residents. The author reiterates that many residents of gentrifying neighborhoods fear the possibility of being displaced and are unsettled by the feeling of being pushed out. The issue of displacement in gentrifying areas is one of the biggest issues implied in this chapter. This relates a lot to my research because of the fact one of the main concerns mentioned in my research is figuring out what occurs to residents who are displaced from their homes because they are not able to afford their rent? There must be a certain mechanism that tap the wealth created by gentrification for the benefit of indigenous and poorer residents who may wish to one day live in a neighborhood. …show more content…

The Fed Up Honeys Re-Present the Gentrification of the Lower East Side” Professor Caitlin Cahill discusses the experience of economic urban restructuring from a group of young working class women in Lower East Side, New York City. Cahill goes out in finding the inside’ perspective of young women of color who have grown up in the Lower East Side in the 1990s. Cahill wants to know what is it like to live in a neighborhood that is constantly changing while these women are living in it. Some of the methods that were required in order to conduct this research were participatory action research that was done by women researches by the name of ‘Fed up Honeys’. This project engaged with six young women who were between the ages sixteen to twenty-two who lived in the Lower East Side neighborhood. Cahill conducted this research in a collective process of looking critically at their social and environmental context and trained them in social research methods. The women were able to frame the questions, design the research, analyze the date and develop research products. They decided to focus their research on stereotypes and how the community’s lack of resources feed into both stereotyping and young women’s well-being. Cahill is also looking into the connection between public representations of young working class women of color, white privilege, and privatization as they play out on the “color line” of the gentrifying Lower East Side. Cahill

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