{"product_id":"9780226449678","title":"Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City","description":"For long-time residents of Washington, DC’s Shaw\/U Street, the neighborhood has become almost unrecognizable in recent years. Where the city’s most infamous open-air drug market once stood, a farmers’ market now sells grass-fed beef and homemade duck egg ravioli. On the corner where AM.PM carryout used to dish out soul food, a new establishment markets its $28 foie gras burger. Shaw is experiencing a dramatic transformation, from “ghetto” to “gilded ghetto,” where white newcomers are rehabbing homes, developing dog parks, and paving the way for a third wave coffee shop on nearly every block.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRace, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City\u003c\/i\u003e is an in-depth ethnography of this gilded ghetto. Derek S. Hyra captures here a quickly gentrifying space in which long-time black residents are joined, and variously displaced, by an influx of young, white, relatively wealthy, and\/or gay professionals who, in part as a result of global economic forces and the recent development of central business districts, have returned to the cities earlier generations fled decades ago. As a result, America is witnessing the emergence of what Hyra calls “cappuccino cities.” A cappuccino has essentially the same ingredients as a cup of coffee with milk, but is considered upscale, and is double the price. In Hyra’s cappuccino city, the black inner-city neighborhood undergoes enormous transformations and becomes racially “lighter” and more expensive by the year.","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120224616688,"sku":"9780226449678","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780226449678_p0.jpg?v=1769914205","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780226449678","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}