Turf Wars: Discourse, Diversity, and the Politics of Place (New Directions in Ethnography)

by Gabriella Gahlia Modan (Author)

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  Paperback
  2006

  $38.39

  Turf Wars: Discourse, Diversity, and the Politics of Place is the fascinating story of an urban neighborhood undergoing rapid gentrification. Explores how members of a multi-ethnic, multi-class Washington, DC, community deploy language to legitimize themselves as community members while discrediting others.