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Field Notes from Gentrified Places
2014 Column Contest Winner
Vinson Cunningham has always been fascinated by America’s signature brand of whiteness: a weird, haphazard collage made pretty by a series of artful, often barely perceptible thefts from black people. Call it flattery, call it appropriation, call it inevitable—things, and places, are always changing hands. Field Notes from Gentrified Places is the record of Cunningham’s visits to the sites of these transfers—geographical, cultural, and otherwise.
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July 24, 2015Field Notes from Gentrified Places: Barry Bridge, The Art of Real Estate Development No. 1 (Part 2)
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June 29, 2015Field Notes from Gentrified Places: San Francisco
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May 18, 2015Field Notes from Gentrified Places: The Old Melodies
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May 1, 2015Field Notes from Gentrified Places: Home to Flatbush
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March 5, 2015Field Notes from Gentrified Places: The Blocks Beautiful
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February 16, 2015Field Notes from Gentrified Places: Barry Bridge, The Art of Real Estate Development No. 1 (Part I)
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January 19, 2015Field Notes from Gentrified Places: On Sainthood
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December 15, 2014Field Notes from Gentrified Places: Staten Island
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December 2, 2014Field Notes from Gentrified Places: The Stakes, ft. Paul Mooney
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November 7, 2014Field Notes from Gentrified Places: Café Gentry: A Short Play
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October 20, 2014Field Notes from Gentrified Places: The Black Female Body
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