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The Impacts Of Gentrification On The African American Business Community Of Portland, Oregon, Alexandra Hosford
The Impacts Of Gentrification On The African American Business Community Of Portland, Oregon, Alexandra Hosford
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I focus this inquiry on the impact that gentrification has had on black business and entrepreneurship in the Albina District of Portland, Oregon. The Albina district of provides a unique opportunity to measure the effects of gentrification on black business and business development because the area has historically been a residentially segregated black community and has seen dramatic changes due to gentrification in the past decade, including an influx of middle class, white residents. I conduct this examination by subdividing my inquiry into three main sections. First, I provide an outline of the background and evolution of the discourse around …