In L.A., the displacement of Black residents from historically Black neighborhoods was a process that was orchestrated to then make room for gentrification, argued Marne Campbell, an African American studies professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. She explained how the convergence of multiple factors in the 1980s and 1990s — including deindustrialization, the crack cocaine epidemic, mass incarceration, and the 1984 Olympics — created conditions for what she describes as the “systematic targeting of working-class black neighborhoods.”
Source: Capital B News
From Watts to D.C.: How 500 Black Neighborhoods Vanished in 45 Years
