Claremont Colleges Scholarship @ Claremont Scripps Senior Theses Scripps Student Scholarship 2017 Race, Class, and Gentrification Along the Atlanta BeltLine Natalie Camrud Scripps College Recommended Citation Camrud, Natalie, "Race, Class, and Gentrification Along the Atlanta BeltLine" (2017). Scripps Senior Theses. 947. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/947 This Open Access Senior Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Scripps Student Scholarship at Scholarship @ Claremont. It has been accepted for inclusion in Scripps Senior Theses by an authorized administrator of Scholarship @ Claremont. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Race, Class, and Gentrification Along the Atlanta BeltLine Natalie Camrud In partial fulfillment of a Bachelor of Arts degree in Environmental Analysis, 2016-2017 academic year, Scripps College, Claremont, California Readers: Professor Char Miller Professor Lance Neckar 1 Acknowledgements A huge thanks to my readers, Char Miller and Lance Neckar. Thank you for supporting me with tea, cookies, and helpful comments. I could not have done it without you. Thanks to all the people who let me interview them for this project and gave me deeper insights into this topic. Finally, thank you to my family for cheering me on through the entire process; I love you. Terminology: For the historical period that parts of this thesis focus on, Atlanta was characterized by a “one- dimensional racial profile”1 that solely surrounded the relationship between black and white. Until 1990, races and ethnicities beyond black and white were 1% or less each.2 This is why I use the term “black” instead of “people of color” for my historical descriptions of race relations.