[Linganth] today on the blog -- Jessica Grieser

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Anna-Marie Springer chats with Jessica Grieser about her book, The Black
Side of the River
on the CaMP blog today.

https://campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb:

Across the United States, cities are changing. Gentrification is
transforming urban landscapes, often pushing local Black populations to the
margins. As a result, communities with rich histories and strong identities
grapple with essential questions. What does it mean to be from a place in
flux? What does it mean to be a specific kind of person from that place?
What does gentrification mean for the fabric of a community?

In *The Black Side of the River*, sociolinguist Jessi Grieser draws on ten
years of interviews with dozens of residents of Anacostia, a historically
Black neighborhood in Washington, DC, to explore these ideas through the
lens of language use. Grieser finds that residents use certain speech
features to create connections among racial, place, and class identities;
reject negative characterizations of place from those outside the
community; and negotiate ideas of belonging. In a neighborhood undergoing
substantial class gentrification while remaining decisively Black, Grieser
finds that Anacostians use language to assert a positive, hopeful place
identity that is inextricably intertwined with their racial one.

Grieser's work is a call to center Black lived experiences in urban
research, confront the racial effects of urban change, and preserve the
rich culture and community in historic Black neighborhoods, in Washington,
DC, and beyond.
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