Get back honky cat

(Check out the lyrics of the Elton John song Honky Cat...)

Nikki Kahn (The Washington Post). Amani Moore chases after brother RJ in a field behind their house. "We have our own little backyard here," Toni Moore said. The neighborhood, once mainly white, became an affluent black community almost overnight. From the article "In a Pocket of Prince William: Black Residents Find Comfort and Company in New Neighborhoods."

Today's Post has a story about "white gentrification" in the Pacific Northwest, "In Parts of U.S. Northwest, a Changing Face," subtitled "Economics Drive White Gentrification of Core Black Neighborhoods of Seattle and Portland."

It's not a lot different from the Post stories that led to my writing a "four-part series" on "Commerce in the 'hood." It's worth going back and re-reading these pieces, in particular Karen Alston's quoted comments in the first piece.

-- Commerz in the 'hood... (aka "Commerce as the engine of urbanism")
-- Commerz in the 'hood, part two
-- Commerz in the 'hood, part three
-- Commerce dans de quartier de la ville, partie quatre (Commerz in the 'hood series) 在商业街道

As well as this blog entry from the following week, "It appears as if I am becoming a sociologist...," about the outmigration of African-American families to Washington's exurbs

Charles Ford, a longtime resident of Portland, Ore., talks with new neighbor Tara Heiggelke. Gentrification is altering neighborhood demographics. Photo Credit: Blaine Harden -- The Washington Post.

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