Q: Who first defined gentrification and what did it mean?
A: Ruth Glass (1964) defined gentrification as middle-class “gentry” moving into working-class neighborhoods, renovating housing, increasing property values, and displacing lower-income residents.
Q: In Gilmore Girls, Stars Hollow suddenly attracts wealthy NYC buyers who renovate homes and push out locals like Taylor and Babette. What process is this?
A: Gentrification.
Q: What are the key features of gentrification in Glass’ definition?
A: Housing renovation, shift from renting to owning, rising property values, middle-class in-migration, and displacement of working-class residents.
Q: In Community, Jeff renovates Abed’s building and rents units at high prices to lawyers, pushing out original tenants. What’s happening?
A: Classic gentrification.
Q: What did Meligrana & Skaburskis (2005) find about Canadian gentrification?
A: Gentrification spreads outward from already gentrified cores (“contagious diffusion”); linked to rising education/income, smaller households, young adults, and higher density (1971–2001 census).
Q: In Psych, Shawn sees affordable areas slowly fill with wealthy LA newcomers, raising rents. This supports which model?
A: Contagious diffusion of gentrification.
Q: What characterizes neighborhoods most vulnerable to gentrification in Canada?
A: Near downtown, rising incomes/rents, small households, high education levels, high mobility and density.
Q: In Bones, Brennan buys a downtown home in a formerly low-income area; trendy shops move in and families leave. What traits made the area vulnerable?
A: Central location + rising income/education patterns.
Q: How has gentrification changed in the contemporary era (Hackworth)?
A: Shift from DIY pioneers to corporate developers; strong government involvement; weaker resistance; extends beyond city core.
Q: In Burn Notice, corporate real-estate groups redevelop Miami blocks with state subsidies, displacing families. Which era is this?
A: Corporate/state-driven gentrification.
Q: What are the four types of displacement?
A: Last-resident, chain displacement, exclusionary displacement, and displacement pressure.
Q: In It’s Always Sunny, the gang renovates around Paddy’s Pub, raises prices, and longtime locals feel unwelcome or leave. What type is this?
A: Displacement pressure / exclusionary displacement.
Q: How does mass incarceration operate as a system of stratification?
A: Criminal records reduce employment, voting rights, housing and education access, disproportionately harming Black Americans and reinforcing inequality.
Q: In The Mentalist, Cho sees ex-offenders denied housing and jobs, reinforcing inequality. Which concept explains this?
A: Mass incarceration as stratification.
Q: What is Michelle Alexander’s core argument?
A: Mass incarceration functions as a new racial caste system following slavery and Jim Crow, especially via drug policy and post-prison barriers.
Q: In Psych, Gus sees Black teens punished more harshly for drugs than white teens. What concept applies?
A: The New Jim Crow.
Q: What key stats illustrate racial incarceration inequality?
A: ~1 in 4 Black men imprisoned (1975–79 cohort), ~37% of young Black HS dropouts incarcerated, ~40% lifetime earnings loss, major intergenerational effects.
Q: In Bones, Booth reviews data showing disproportionate Black incarceration despite similar drug use across groups. What issue is this?
A: Systemic racialized incarceration.
Q: What did Devah Pager’s audit study find?
A: White applicants with criminal records received more callbacks (17%) than Black applicants without records (14%) — race penalized more than a record.
Q: In Community, Troy gets fewer callbacks than a white applicant with a criminal record. Which study explains this?
A: Pager (2003) employment discrimination study.
Q: What patterns show anti-Black racism in Canada?
A: Higher discrimination reports, rising hate crimes, disproportional homicide and prison rates, harsher correctional assessments despite lower reoffending risk.
Q: In Psych, Juliet notes Black Canadians face higher victimization and incarceration despite similar or lower crime rates. What concept?
A: Anti-Black systemic discrimination.
Q: How do gentrification and mass incarceration relate conceptually?
A: Both exclude marginalized groups spatially and economically, often via state policy, reinforcing racial inequality.
Q: (Concept Link) In Burn Notice, low-income Black neighborhoods face both redevelopment displacement and heavy policing. What link is this?
A: State-driven racialized exclusion.
