Date of Award
Summer 2022
Document Type
Open Access Dissertation
Department
College of Social Work
First Advisor
Kirk A. Foster
Abstract
Scholars have increasingly recognized the sociocultural impacts of gentrification on Black residents. However, the gentrification literature lacks an empirically tested theoretical model on the nuanced ways gentrification may socially and culturally displace longstanding Black residents. Limited attention has also been given to factors that may moderate social and cultural displacement. Since place identity (i.e., one’s sense of belonging to a place) encompasses residents’ social and cultural connections to their neighborhoods, conceptualizing social and cultural displacement in relation to place identity helps to understand a potential moderating factor. Furthermore, although space and place dynamics of gentrification have been well-documented, gentrification research has primarily involved traditional quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches. Traditional approaches have limited most gentrification research to theory and descriptions, as opposed to action and practice. Toward this end, this dissertation study aims to: (1) propose a theoretical model of social and cultural displacement within a hegemonic U.S. gentrification context (i.e., the influx of Whites into historically Black neighborhoods) that centers race and place identity, (2) empirically test the proposed theoretical model, and (3) illustrate an innovative, action-oriented methodological approach (i.e., using photovoice and Geographic Information Systems’ (GIS) Story Map) to examining social and cultural displacement.
Rights
© 2022, Brittany B. Davis
Recommended Citation
Davis, B. B.(2022). Place Identity and Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Displacement Among Longstanding Black American Residents: Theory, Case, and Innovating Methodology. (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/6888