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Gentrification? Bring it

  • Written by Jonathan Wynn, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst
imageCash-strapped Hartford is one of a number American cities that have missed out on the nation's urban renaissance.Jessica Hill/AP Photo

In July, a group of long-time, mostly Latino residents of Los Angeles’s Boyle Heights neighborhood staged protests outside a trendy new coffee shop called Weird Wave Coffee, holding signs that read...

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