Leaving Chicago for Iowa’s “Fields of Opportunity”: Community Dispossession, Rootlessness, and the Quest for Somewhere to “Be OK”
Keene DE, Padilla MB, Geronimus AT. Leaving Chicago for Iowa’s “Fields of Opportunity”: Community Dispossession, Rootlessness, and the Quest for Somewhere to “Be OK”. Human Organization 2010, 69: 275-284. PMID: 21037928, PMCID: PMC2964883, DOI: 10.17730/humo.69.3.gr851617m015064m.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPublic housing demolitionHousing demolitionPublic housing developmentsLow-income housingSocial support networksProcesses of dislocationSocial support resourcesMigration experienceAffordable housingField of opportunitiesStructural disadvantageRapid gentrificationHousing developmentParticipant observationEconomic opportunitiesDepth interviewsUrban neighborhoodsSupport networksUrban developmentMajor themesDispossessionLow-income African AmericansHousingTiesChicagoRace, class and the stigma of place: Moving to “opportunity” in Eastern Iowa
Keene DE, Padilla MB. Race, class and the stigma of place: Moving to “opportunity” in Eastern Iowa. Health & Place 2010, 16: 1216-1223. PMID: 20800532, PMCID: PMC2964645, DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2010.08.006.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsUrban neighborhoodsHigh-poverty urban neighborhoodsPublic housing demolitionContext of gentrificationSmall town communitiesLow-income African American menHousing demolitionDepth interviewsPervasive stigmatizationChicago NeighborhoodsNew destinationsTown communitiesStigmatizationAfrican American menNeighborhoodAmerican menEastern IowaRacePlaceGentrificationInterviewsWomenCommunityStigmaDemolition