Ghosts of Atlanta Andrea Shapiro Mercedes Sosa

Mercedes Sosa

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he attended Richard Halls classes at the Royal College of Music in Manchester

political reform and radical transformation

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Ghosts of Atlanta Andrea Shapiro Mercedes SosaOnce heralded as the "Black Mecca of the South," Atlanta's Black community is currently under threat of dislocation by cultural gentrification. Amid the city's urban renaissance, residents face rising property values, taxes, and rents, as well as the more insidious loss of a collective identity and belonging. In Ghosts of Atlanta: Cultural Gentrification of the Black Mecca, author Rhana Gittens Wheeler examines the fading echoes of African American