Liren Ma - "Too Much Bubble Tea": The Promise and Pearls of Minority Gentrification

In mainstream media accounts, gentrification is usually portrayed as a monolithic process of wealthy, college-educated whites moving into historically underinvested neighborhoods and displacing longtime, low-income minority residents. However, in the past couple of decades, there has been a growing number of low-income minority neighborhoods experiencing dramatic influxes in gentrifiers of the same race. The literature on minority gentrification has focused on whether this phenomenon leads to different outcomes for vulnerable neighborhoods than white gentrification does…