This article explores the relationship between gentrification and racial segregation in Brooklyn, New York with an emphasis on Black Brooklyn. With more than 2.6 million residents, if Brooklyn was a city, it would be the fourth largest in the USA. Brooklyn is the home of approximately 788,000 Blacks with almost 692,000 of them living in an area that historian Harold X. Connolly has called Black Brooklyn. In recent decades, large portions of Brooklyn, including parts of Black Brooklyn have been gentrifying with sizable numbers of whites moving to traditionally Black neighborhoods. One would anticipate racial segregation to be declining in Brooklyn and especially in the areas that are gentrifying. However, this expectation of racial desegregation appears to be false. While there are declines in indices of racial segregation, these declines are frequently marginal, especially when the increase in the number of whites in Black neighborhoods is taken into consideration. At the same time, gentrification has contributed to the displacement or replacement of thousands of long-term African American residents from their homes. This persistence of racial segregation in a time of gentrification raises many questions about the two processes and the effects that they have on African Americans.

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“人民发生了什么？” 布鲁克林的绅士化和种族隔离

本文探讨了纽约布鲁克林的绅士化与种族隔离之间的关系，并着重介绍了布莱克布鲁克林。如果布鲁克林拥有超过260万居民，那它将是美国的第四大城市。布鲁克林大约有788,000名黑人的住所，其中将近692,000名黑人居住在历史学家Harold X. Connolly称为Black Brooklyn的地区。在最近的几十年中，布鲁克林的大部分地区，包括布莱克布鲁克林的部分地区，都开始绅士化，大量白人移居到传统的黑人社区。人们可以预料，布鲁克林的种族隔离将在减少，尤其是在中产阶级化的地区。但是，种族隔离的这种期望似乎是错误的。尽管种族隔离指数有所下降，这些下降通常是微不足道的，特别是考虑到黑人社区白人的数量增加时。同时，中产阶级化导致成千上万的长期非裔美国居民流离失所或被替换。高档化时期种族隔离的持续存在，引发了关于这两个过程及其对非裔美国人的影响的许多问题。