In 1950, Woodie Guthrie, the well-known American political folk musician, wrote a song about Frederick 'Fred' Christ Trump, Trump's landlord father, denouncing him for his racist housing policies. The San Mateo eviction data reveals another important analytic to think through in correlation with Trump's impending presidency and processes of gentrification: gender. In 2017, the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project mapped the connections between policing, gentrification and race in San Francisco. By mobilizing the language of 'inner city' Trump not only advocates for structures of racialized surveillance via 'broken window theory', but further, he deliberately ignores the histories of segregation, redlining, and white flight that constitute its origins. In thinking through the horrific immigration policies that Trump imposes through an anti-displacement analytic, it is important to remember that immigrant communities are already disproportionately targeted by another form of forced ejection: eviction. The prison abolition movement has argued that the only answer to the prison–industrial complex, founded in the carceral state, is abolition.
In the Time of Trump
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