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When place-based identity faces displacement

My neighborhood is gentrifying and the barber shop where three generations of my family got haircuts is closing and I feel like I am losing my history.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The physical spaces that anchor family memory are vulnerable to forces beyond our control, threatening forms of continuity we took for granted.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with What legacy means — a philosophical survey?”

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