Gentrification of ethnic enclaves depends causally on ghetto stigmatization

Evidence

So what does such an archaeology produce? It should in the very least make us consider carefully the historical problem of thinking about racialized city life. The gentrification of the ethnic enclave is causally related to the stigmatization of the city ghetto and only a detailed examination of the interface of culture, political economy, and social policy can explain to us how this comes to be the case. It is essential both to understand the progress that has been made in celebrations of cultural diversity that litter the policy arenas of today’s mainland Europe and North America whilst simultaneously understanding that they do not necessarily present us with either an “end of racism” or even a significant improvement in the life chances of racialized minorities. And it is imperative to identify the manner in which racialized images inform city descriptions that may rationalize governmental intervention and then erase a racialized presence. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2306

Categorization

• SEED: The observation that diversity celebrations coexist with no improvement in minority life chances could anchor an article about how multicultural policy rhetoric and material racial inequality advance in parallel without contradiction.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2306
• XREF: connects to: Capital profits from local cultural uniqueness while destroying it via gentrification and homogenization — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 463