Research often links gentrification to racial inequality. Nevertheless, scholars know surprisingly little about whether the racial composition of gentrifiers moderates the consequences of gentrification. Few quantitative studies compare the effects of gentrification across different racial groups, and those that do tend to limit their outcome of interest to housing. This paper represents perhaps the first ever large-scale assessment of the ways in which gentrifiers’ racial composition is associated with local retail development. Using data on retailers in over 500 U.S. cities between 2000 and 2010, the paper shows that retail development was significantly slower in neighborhoods gentrified by Blacks rather than Whites. Put differently, White gentrifiers gained a disproportionate amount of the retail development associated with gentrification. Scholars must acknowledge that the consequences of gentrification vary depending on the racial composition of gentrifiers, which is likely one reason why the field struggles to appropriately operationalize and measure gentrification.

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绅士之间的种族不平等：绅士的种族如何影响绅士社区的零售发展

研究通常将高档化与种族不平等联系起来。然而，令人惊讶的是，学者们对绅士化的种族构成是否会缓和绅士化的后果知之甚少。很少有定量研究比较不同种族群体中绅士化的影响，而那些确实倾向于将他们感兴趣的结果限制在住房上。这篇论文可能代表了对绅士种族构成与当地零售发展相关方式的首次大规模评估。该论文使用了 2000 年至 2010 年间美国 500 多个城市的零售商数据，表明在黑人而非白人中产阶级化的社区中，零售发展明显放缓。换句话说，白人中产阶级获得了与高档化相关的零售发展的不成比例。