Black aesthetic emplacement: Thinking beyond neoliberal capitalist explanations of gentrification: Black in place: the spatial aesthetics of race in a post-chocolate city, Brandi Thompson Summers. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2019. 256 pp., ISBN978-1-4696-5401-0, $29.95 (paperback)

After building the foundations of "black aesthetic emplacement" in the introductory chapter, Summers explains the contours of her theorization through the case of Washington D.C.'s H Street, NE corridor. Summers uses Chapter 1 to recount the tumultuous historical legacy of H Street, rooted in the broader urban political and economic geography of D.C., in order to show how current waves of gentrification have built upon the groundwork of multiple rounds of dispossession. While Summers' book undoubtedly adds to analyses of political economic strategies of gentrification and how they manifest in the H Street, NE Corridor, she touches on the more than economic ways by which we come to both materially and psychologically know gentrification. [Extracted from the article]