Richard Yeboah
@ricyeboah
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Public services, history and local communities... Currently writing a book on the gentrification of Hackney. Agent @OWNITLDN. Views are my own.
Hackney, London
Joined May 2012
Yesterday I took some pictures in my old area of South Hackney (especially Kingshold Estate) as part of my research into #Hackney post-war estates. Here's me and my friends on the corner of Well Street back in 2003 and here's me in the same spot in 2020.
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RT @FeliciaOdamtten: Why do ethnic minorities in the UK live in households that spend so much more income on housing than White British adu…
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RT @Bluedollarbillz: RnB meets UK garage in this sweet but simple vocal 2 step remix of TLC's "My Life". No artist attributed to this one.…
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RT @Blackthingsuk: 🙏🏾🤍🕊️ Patricia Johnson, 15 Gerry Francis, 17 Lloyd Hall, 20 Peter Campbell, 18 Patrick Cumminas, 15 Glen Powell, 15 Pau…
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RT @HistoryOfStokey: Excited to announce my talk, Look Up, Look Down: Spotting Local History Everywhere, as part of @HackneyHistFest this M…
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Maybe that's true for you, but most of the black men I grew up with had their dad in their lives (including me). No one's household was perfect, but those who did come from single parent households were from a range of ethnicities (not just black)...
I don’t know why people are lying to themselves, when most people they know (black British) didn’t grow up with their dad in their household. Let’s stop the cap please !! I actually don’t have one friend who’s British Caribbean who grew up with their father in their house.
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RT @PauloNoggy: Do you want to know one thing that will radicalize you about this country. Rightmove. Try to find a 3-4 bedroom home in…
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RT @ronkelawal: As a born and bred Hackneyrian who witnessed gentrification in HD this sounds like something to add to my reading list when…
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RT @VictoriaFutures: This is an amazing 1 hour watch on the changes that Hackney has experienced starting all the way from its Victorian ro…
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You can catch my talk on my book and the gentrification of Hackney at the Hackney History Festival here
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@Penny_Ten I think ethnic minorities are being replaced in Hackney - but in real terms statistically the numbers haven't changed much over the last few years. I think it's more to do with the occupation and reshaping of cultural spaces, and our sense of exclusion from those spaces.
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@Penny_Ten No problem at all! I think gentrification has definitely become more alienating in recent years, and this hasn't been helped by rising house prices. The real problem I stress in the book is that gentrification has felt intentional (i.e driving by policy)
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@Penny_Ten They've changed quite a bit, but the book is more nuanced than saying gentrification is "good" or "bad"
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@SamanthaHorley @AbneyParkN16 I actually live around the corner from Abney Park so would certainly be interested in doing a talk some time in May
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