{"id":49,"date":"2018-12-20T10:23:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T15:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010-spring-2018\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2019-04-12T19:11:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T23:11:56","slug":"log-11","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010a-spring-2019-jvilla\/data-collection-logs\/log-11\/","title":{"rendered":"March 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><em>Between weeks 8 and 12, each student should provide a weekly reflection (500 words) on the data you have collected to date. <\/em>\n<ul>\n<li><em>What data did you collect?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I collected my data using three newspaper articles that discussed the effects of gentrification in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.\u00a0 I also watched a documentary called\u00a0<em>Los Sures\u00a0<\/em>on Kanopy.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>What is your initial impression of the data?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I already knew many of this information both due to personal connections to Williamsburg, as well as seeing the change in the community with my own eyes. However, after reading articles that described more in-depth the negative effects of gentrification on communities of color I became angry. The fact that many working-class people have to move to accommodate new supposedly &#8220;woke,&#8221; yet ultra-privileged young white hipsters is disheartening.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>How have the data you have collected this week changed\/progressed your thinking about your research project? <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It made me think about supplemental questions to ask my interviewees. More specifically, on the topic of religion and community organizing.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>What challenges did you encounter while collecting the data?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A lot of the articles were older, therefore I need to find more recent articles.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>What are your next steps?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I plan on looking into 2-3 articles for my next annotation that are no more than 4-5 years old.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2-3 annotations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Annotations:<\/p>\n<p class=\"l-article__hed\"><strong>Misra, Tanvi. &#8220;Inside Pre-Gentrification Williamsburg.&#8221;<em>\u00a0<\/em><em>CityLab.\u00a0<\/em>The Atlantic Monthly Group.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.citylab.com\/equity\/2016\/04\/a-time-capsule-showing-pre-gentrification-williamsburg\/476958\/<\/p>\n<p>In this article, Misra discusses the newly restored 1984 documentary called\u00a0<em>Los Sures<\/em>,<em>\u00a0<\/em>which documents life in pre-gentrified Williamsburg for Puerto Rican and Dominican Americans. The documentary is situated in the Southside of Williamsburg, hence <em>Los Sures<\/em> . It follows the stories of four Latinx families living in this neighborhood during the &#8217;70s and &#8217;80s. In doing so, it paints a portrait of what it was like to live in\u00a0<em>Los Surres,\u00a0<\/em>the &#8220;hood&#8221; or &#8220;ghetto&#8221; as some might call it, during the later part of the twentieth century. A major theme in this film is the importance of\u00a0<em>comunidad.\u00a0<\/em>The Southside of Williamsburg was known for its crime, drugs, and violence; however, it was because of the strength and unity in the community that many folks stayed. Throughout the film, Diego Echeverria, the director and filmmaker, sheds light to the resilience of community and importance of place as a vital element to identity&#8211;to say one was from\u00a0<em>Los Sures <\/em>meant something. More importantly, the documentary is a window into the past, before the infestation of hipsters in Williamsburg, and begs one to ask the question: how can\u00a0<em>El Barrio\u00a0<\/em>be made great again? This is a paradoxical question, as El Barrio was not &#8220;great&#8221; by most people&#8217;s standards due to its drugs, crime, and gang-violence. However, what was great about El Barrio was its\u00a0<em>comunidad.\u00a0<\/em>As more working-class, people of color are displaced out Williamsburg the &#8220;greatness&#8221; of El Barrio leaves with them. Therefore, the question to add is how can\u00a0<em>El Barrio\u00a0<\/em>and its people stay?<\/p>\n<p>LINK TO ACTUAL DOCUMENTARY:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bowdoin.kanopy.com\/video\/los-sures\">https:\/\/bowdoin.kanopy.com\/video\/los-sures<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content__headline \"><b>Harris, Paul. 2010. &#8220;Brooklyn&#8217;s Williamsburg becomes new front line of the gentrification battle.&#8221;\u00a0<\/b><em style=\"font-weight: bold\">The Guardian.\u00a0<\/em><b>Guardian\u00a0News and Media Limited.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"content__headline \"><em>https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2010\/dec\/12\/new-york-brooklyn-williamsburg-gentrification<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"content__headline \">In this article written by Paul Harris for The Guardian he writes about the controversial opening of a Duane Reade in Williamsburg. Harris interviews a 32-year old white woman, Jennifer Nelson, who is a freelance writer and neighborhood hipster. Nelson vehemently objects the opening of this Duane Reade, as it signifies the coming of corporate America into a &#8220;tranquil enclave of independent bohemians.&#8221; However, Harris notes that people like Nelson forget that they too were a problem for previous residents. Harris describes the change in ethnic and socio-economic diversity that was present in Williamsburg stating:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over the past decade the neighbourhood, which sits just over the East River from Manhattan, has been transformed from a sleepy, poor, residential area of Jewish, eastern European and Hispanic working-class immigrants to one where most denizens appear to have beards, piercings, lots of tattoos and belong to at least one band.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The older working-class residents of Williamsburg have been displaced due to gentrification, and it is people like Nelson who come in, lay claim to a land that wasn&#8217;t hers to begin with, and is too nearsighted and narrow-minded to see the deleterious effects of her presence. Harris interviews a History professor at City University of New York, who notes that gentrification is a cycle that happens to many community and comes with &#8220;mixed blessings.&#8221; However, those blessings are slight as compared to the more notorious effects of being priced-out of one&#8217;s home.<\/p>\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/15434205\/el_diario_desktop_pos1_728x90_0__container__\"><strong>Ledezma, Carolina. 2012. &#8220;Desarrollo en Brooklyn azota a las iglesias m\u00e1s que el diablo.&#8221;\u00a0<em>El Diario La Prensa. www.eldiariony.com\/2012\/12\/05\/desarrollo-en-brooklyn-azota-a-las-iglesias-mas-que-el-diablo\/<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In this article written for <em>El Diario<\/em>, a latin newspaper in New York City, Carolina Ledezma tells of how development in Williamsburg has negatively impacted Latin community churches. A baptist bishop notes how most of his congregation has left or been cut in half due to the displacement of the Latin Americans in Williamsburg, as people can no longer afford to live there. He states:\u201cLa mitad de nuestra congregaci\u00f3n ya no est\u00e1 con nosotros porque no pudieron sobrevivir en Nueva York\u201d, coment\u00f3 Julio Mercado, obispo bautista de la Primera Iglesia Getsemani, de la avenida Graham. Mercado, quien preside la coalici\u00f3n de cl\u00e9rigos del cuartel 90, dice que ahora s\u00f3lo cuenta con unos 35 miembros.&#8221; Further, the article not only tell of how gentrification and displacement have led to a decrease in church attendees, but also contributed to higher rent prices. Thus, some churches are in threat of closing down due to the escalating rent. Churches have played a major role in the creation of <em>comunidad\u00a0<\/em>in\u00a0Williamsburg, without them another part of the Latinx population&#8217;s social\/gathering place will also be displaced.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Comments:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Juliana, the documentary that you examined looks like it will be very helpful for your project. It should serve as a very good historical basis for thinking about what life was like in Brooklyn prior to gentrification. It&#8217;s doing too long before you do your interviews. The material that you find out within them may lead you to new things to think about. You should give yourself time to sit with this data.<\/div>\n<article><\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between weeks 8 and 12, each student should provide a weekly reflection (500 words) on the data you have collected to date. What data did you collect? I collected my data using three newspaper articles that discussed the effects of gentrification in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.\u00a0 I also watched a documentary called\u00a0Los Sures\u00a0on Kanopy. What is your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010a-spring-2019-jvilla\/data-collection-logs\/log-11\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;March 27&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-49","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010a-spring-2019-jvilla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010a-spring-2019-jvilla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010a-spring-2019-jvilla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010a-spring-2019-jvilla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010a-spring-2019-jvilla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010a-spring-2019-jvilla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010a-spring-2019-jvilla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010a-spring-2019-jvilla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}