Fractal Gentrification in Hanif Abdurraqib’s Serial Poetry
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Abstract
Hanif Abdurraqib is best-known for his essays on the affective power of popular music and Black performance, but critics have ignored his poetry’s more jaundiced depictions of the heartland immiseration that has taken place alongside the Black Lives Matter movement. In close readings of his serial lyrics – particularly one describing the changing street front outside of a Black barbershop – I argue that Abdurraqib offers a vital account of the fractal gentrification that has marked the changes in smaller cities and towns. In doing so, I mean to provoke deeper attention to the “oppositional gaze” that continues through the recent “Planetary turn” in urban studies by returning to Ruth Glass’s foundational essay in “London: Aspects of Change,” through which I argue that Americanness is always active in conversations about gentrification. The bigger question, then, is whose Americanness?
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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