stop to it. Dating back to the third century, gentrification has always been a fight for the less fortunate individuals. Gentrification is the buying and renovating of houses and businesses in low-income, urban communities by upper-class individuals and companies, thus improving property values but displacing lower-income families already residing there. Not only is the displacement of these people living there an unfortunate result from gentrification but so are raised rent prices (keeping in mind
Jettisoned” (Parks 38). Kin-Seer being jettisoned represents the way ancestry and genealogy was thrown overboard, and that is why there is a gap in black and Pan-African history. In The Tragicomedy of Slavery in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Early Plays, an essay by Glenda Carpio, Carpio introduces the notion of dispossession. Carpio describes slavery “as a form of dispossession based on racism” (201). The descendants of black slaves were dispossessed of their African ancestry and much of their early American
Concentric Zone Model and the Neighborhood Life Cycles, are two models and theories that attempt to explain the layout of urban areas, growth of cities, decay of communities, and the factors that relate to it such as economic, or sociological. This essay identifies the characteristics of both theories in the city of Erie, and applies patterns found in the observation to test these models. Both models reckon a relationship between socio-economic status of households, and the distance from the Central