Gentrification in Black face?: The return of the Black middle class to urban neighborhoods

Urban Geography

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 118-142

  Moore, Kesha S ^a  

^a DREW UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black middle class; Gentrification; Philadelphia; Urban neighborhoods

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; BLACK POPULATION; GENTRIFICATION; LOW INCOME POPULATION; NEIGHBORHOOD; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; URBAN SOCIETY;

NORTH AMERICA; PENNSYLVANIA; PHILADELPHIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 69449097015     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.30.2.118     Document Type: Article

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