Mango Fufu Kimchi Yucca: The depoliticization of "diversity" in Washington, D.C. Discourse

City and Society

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 188-221

  Modan, Gabriella ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse; Diversity; Gentrification; Symbolic economy; Urban space; Washington DC

Indexed keywords

GENTRIFICATION; MULTICULTURALISM; NEIGHBORHOOD; SOCIAL JUSTICE; URBAN AREA;

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA];

EID: 67149094612     PISSN: 08930465     EISSN: 1548744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-744X.2008.00017.x     Document Type: Article

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