This is my final project! It’s titled “Temple Town: Gentrification in North Philadelphia.” It’s an op-ed type piece about the history of gentrification in North Philly. This is my last post for real this time, so c’est la vie!

This is it. My last blog post on here. I’m gonna be reflecting on this past year (academically focused) for today’s blog. I actually was committed to 2 different schools last spring. If I’m being completely honest, Temple was my safety school — my absolute backup — when I was

This past year has been an interesting one. From when I stopped working in March through mid-May when I started working away, I did not see a single person outside of my family, besides my neighbors from a very far distance when I was walking my dogs. My mother is

My project is about gentrification and its effects around Temple University, so the present-day concerns are a culmination of how the North Philadelphia community has been impacted. People now are more concerned with how gentrification is pushing communities out, while in the past, gentrification has been framed as a process

What even is subjectivity? Google says that it’s “the quality of being based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions,” and I guess I’d agree with that. Subjectivity is how opinions are shaped internally rather than externally (like why one person might love a song, and another person

At first, I wasn’t sure what Dr. Hartman was referring to in the article “Venus in Two Acts,” but now I understand what she means by “archival silence” and why it matters when thinking about history. There are gaps in history, like what happened Venus, because people didn’t bother to

After quite a few days of contemplation, I decided to switch my topic from researching the black arts movement to researching the effect of the gentrification happening around Temple’s campus on the local permanent residents. Although changing my research subject will set me back time-wise, I’m confident that my final

It’s research time! I’ll be looking into how the black arts movement of the 1960s-70s impacted Philly, so I’ll have to look into different areas of the arts in order to get a full picture, as the black arts movement was anything but a monolith. I’ll be starting with a

the topic For my research project, I’ll be researching the black arts movement of Philadelphia and its cultural impact on the city. throwback song of the week guiding questions For this project, I’ll be using 2 primary guiding questions. First, on a narrow level, is the question of what impact

I have a few very broad ideas for a final project, but I also might completely change my mind and do something different by next week, but here they are for now: gentrification in philly and how it came to be the black arts movement of philly & its cultural