Katherine White is a writer and sociologist who has addresses topics including graffiti, skateboarding, segregation, and gentrification. She is currently planning a monograph on skateboarding in the Bronx and an ethnographic study on racial segregation in Northern New Jersey.
The current war between community and developers is like another Bronx is Burning. Effective collective action abounds on the front lines of gentrification in the Northern borough.
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