{"id":16603,"date":"2026-03-02T08:46:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/?p=16603"},"modified":"2026-03-02T08:46:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:46:57","slug":"bu-sociologist-japonica-brown-saracinos-new-book-looks-at-how-the-meaning-of-gentrification-has-changed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/2026\/03\/02\/bu-sociologist-japonica-brown-saracinos-new-book-looks-at-how-the-meaning-of-gentrification-has-changed-2\/","title":{"rendered":"BU Sociologist Japonica Brown-Saracino\u2019s New Book Looks at How the Meaning of Gentrification Has Changed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/ciss\/files\/2026\/03\/The-Death-and-Life-of-Gentrification-vert-477x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"267\" class=\"alignright wp-image-16604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/files\/2026\/03\/The-Death-and-Life-of-Gentrification-vert-477x636.jpg 477w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/files\/2026\/03\/The-Death-and-Life-of-Gentrification-vert-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/files\/2026\/03\/The-Death-and-Life-of-Gentrification-vert-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/files\/2026\/03\/The-Death-and-Life-of-Gentrification-vert-500x667.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/files\/2026\/03\/The-Death-and-Life-of-Gentrification-vert-1000x1334.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/files\/2026\/03\/The-Death-and-Life-of-Gentrification-vert-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/files\/2026\/03\/The-Death-and-Life-of-Gentrification-vert-480x640.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/files\/2026\/03\/The-Death-and-Life-of-Gentrification-vert-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/files\/2026\/03\/The-Death-and-Life-of-Gentrification-vert.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Boston University ethnographer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/profile\/japonica-brown-saracino\/\">Japonica Brown-Saracino<\/a> says gentrification means more than a fresh coat of paint and rising real estate prices in old neighborhoods. It\u2019s about how the market can turn anything into a hot commodity\u2014and take it out of the hands of the people who nurtured it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/profile\/japonica-brown-saracino\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Brown-Saracino<\/a>, a BU College of Arts &amp; Sciences professor and chair of sociology, specializes in urban and community sociology and cultural sociology. Her new book,<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/books\/hardcover\/9780691244358\/the-death-and-life-of-gentrification\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Death and Life of Gentrification: A New Map of a Persistent Idea<\/em><\/a><em><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>(Princeton University Press, 2026) examines how the word has evolved from a description of neighborhood change to a socially charged metaphor for cultural appropriation, upscaling, and loss of authenticity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston University ethnographer Japonica Brown-Saracino says gentrification means more than a fresh coat of paint and rising real estate prices in old neighborhoods. It\u2019s about how the market can turn anything into a hot commodity\u2014and take it out of the hands of the people who nurtured it. Brown-Saracino, a BU College of Arts &amp; Sciences [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16605,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16603\/revisions\/16605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}