"Gentrification Is Not the Problem, Racism Is": An Analysis of School Leaders' Perceptions of Gentrification in Two Urban Districts

• In Event: Challenging Structural Racism: Ecologies of Communities and Educational Policies

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine how school principals in two rapidly gentrifying, urban districts understand gentrification within the context of race and racism. We specifically analyze the following research question: How do principals make meaning of gentrification as a racializing process on school-communities?

Authors

• Terrance L. Green, The University of Texas at Austin

• Jeremy D. Horne, University of Texas at Austin

• Chloe Latham Sikes, The University of Texas at Austin

• Emily Germain, Michigan State University

• Andrene Castro, Virginia Commonwealth University

• Joanna Dolores Sanchez, Excelencia in Education