Why is the PB fam all over up in your iTunes and your Stitcher, though? [...]
Poverty isn’t just economic. It’s existential. [...] Prince George’s County is a hub of black wealth. But when the housing market cratered, it was not be spared. [...] 
Sarah Palin wouldn’t recognize these places. [...] My blogmate Monica has been banging this drum for a minute, but John Sides looks at some new research that contradicts a bunch of the ideas about the voting habits of working class whites. Sides finds that the white working class is hardly a monolith, and says that studies show that they’re less motivated [...]
It is not odd or foreign to be able to appreciate the beauty in sad things—the carcass of a rose bathed in moonlight on the pavement. A final goodbye between old lovers. The ever-present hunger of homelessness. Wait, what? [...] 14th and Kenyon, Columbia Heights, DC. (via IntangibleArts, CC 2.0.)
DCentric, a blog from DC’s local NPR affiliate covering race and class posted a piece several days ago called “Five Ways to be a Good Gentrifier.” Are you a middle or high-income earner, who is probably white (but not necessarily!) and [...]
Postbourgie’s own Shani Hilton has a much-discussed cover story in the Washington City Paper about being a black gentrifier. Freddie at L’Hote has some criticism: This is a several-thousand word article on the relationship between race and socioeconomic class, and about the tensions between old and new residents and poor and rich [...] |
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