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| Posted by: singleticket 05:37 pm EST 02/06/18 | |
| In reply to: Woke Students Shut Down A High School Production Of 'Hunchback' - mattyp4 04:37 pm EST 02/06/18 | |
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| One part of me thinks that many of these battles are all about Blue State progressives attacking each other because we've lost the cultural megaphone of government power. But I was recently discussing the gentrification of Ithaca's historic African-American Southside with a friend. Apparently Ithaca is experiencing something like a tech bubble and rents have been skyrocketing and that has pushed its long time African-American community either out of the city or to its limits. The debate that is using the show as a focal point might be coming from someplace real. | |
| Link | Ithaca gentrification displaces people of color |
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| re: Woke Students Shut Down A High School Production Of 'Hunchback' | |
| Posted by: BruceinIthaca 07:29 pm EST 02/06/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Woke Students Shut Down A High School Production Of 'Hunchback' - singleticket 05:37 pm EST 02/06/18 | |
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| I've lived in Ithaca now for over thirty years and I had not heard about this situation on Southside, but I do not doubt it. The tech bubble (I haven't been paying attention from South Hill" may be combining with the always challenging problem that downtown landlords can charge exorbitant rents, because Cornell (and some IC) students split the costs--so a 1-bedroom downtown may go for 1500, and a 2-bedroom for 2000 or more (I've owned my townhouse for twenty years, so I don't know what actual rents really are, except for what colleagues tell me). I do know that when I was a younger and untenured faculty member, I ended up living in an apartment complex near the airport (15-20 minute drive from my campus) because I couldn't afford anything downtown. Sadly, the same situation happened, in a much larger way, in my hometown of Chicago (actually, its suburbs): gentrification of the near South Side (which, during my childhood in the 60s and 70s was affordable housing for African American and Latinx people in that segregated city) has led to working-class minority populations having to move to down-at-their-heels suburbs (many southwest of the city), sometimes a two-hour commute each way on public transportation for those who work in the city and who may not own a car, or be able to pay for parking in the Loop all day. |
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| re: Woke Students Shut Down A High School Production Of 'Hunchback' | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 05:52 pm EST 02/06/18 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 05:48 pm EST 02/06/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Woke Students Shut Down A High School Production Of 'Hunchback' - singleticket 05:37 pm EST 02/06/18 | |
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| It's ironic too that a show with a very valuable message for the "woke" times won't be seen because of "unwoke" casting... though the casting issue is a gray and complicated one, since the "reality" of what Esmeralda's skin color would be isn't so easy to determine, and interestingly enough wouldn't have been black even though the student in question, who quit the show after she was cast in the ensemble while a white girl got the role written for a "person of color", was black... except in reality Esmeralda wouldn't have been black either, right? | |
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