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Title: Gentrification and Legacies of Slavery: Are Place-based Tax Incentives Exacerbating Racial Economic Inequality?

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2022

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Abstract: Existing research establishes connections between legacies of slavery and racial economic inequality (Curtis and O’Connell 2017; O’Connell 2012) but has yet to examine connections between legacies of slavery, gentrification, and related state policy. By conducting OLS regression and spatial autoregression using data from the 1860 U.S. Census, 2000 U.S. Census, and 2012 American Community Survey, I explore the relationship between legacies of slavery and contemporary gentrification at the county-level. This study demonstrates evidence of a meaningful association between legacies of slavery and income by race, and between legacies of slavery and the likelihood a place will be made more vulnerable to gentrification by targeted government policy. This bridges the literatures on legacies of slavery and gentrification by proposing and finding measured support for their association yet leaves questions remaining about the total impacts of government policies conceptually associated with gentrification.

Url: https://repository.lib.ncsu.edu/bitstream/handle/1840.20/40010/etd.pdf?sequence=1

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Authors: Alberg, Christian

Institution: North Carolina State University

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Publisher Location: Raleigh, North Carolina

Pages: 1-59

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Topics: Poverty and Welfare, Race and Ethnicity

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