About the Author

BRETT WILLIAMS is Director of the American Studies Program and Associate Professor of Anthropology at American University.

Reviews

"A very good ethnographic study of a small community in Washington, DC... Students of the new cultural studies, field research, and social theory will find the work to be strongest in its presentation of data."-Choice, December 1988 "Upscaling Downtown is a clear, marvelously insightful analysis of the cultural dynamics of gentrification."-Karen Bordkin Sacks

"A very good ethnographic study of a small community in Washington, DC... Students of the new cultural studies, field research, and social theory will find the work to be strongest in its presentation of data."-Choice, December 1988 "Upscaling Downtown is a clear, marvelously insightful analysis of the cultural dynamics of gentrification."-Karen Bordkin Sacks