La Haine Film Analysis

“La Haine”, is a French word, which translates to “The Hatred”. There is much significance of the title to the entirety of the film. To the characters specifically, it has different meanings.

In the constantly changing economy of cities, the growth of city housing is oftentimes neglected. In “Cities Mobilize to Help Those Threatened by Gentrification” Timothy Williams recounts how gentrification has evolved over the years. Mentioning how cities have changed in order to appease the younger professionals, Williams shows how the city itself is in jeopardy due to the tax increases. Slowly loosing their faithful residents as well as historic culture cities face a big deal. Williams gives quotes from faithful residents, “…long time homeowners are victims of the success story”, (Williams 346). In “Cities Mobilize to Help Those Threatened by Gentrification”, Williams uses his credible quotes and modern statistics to generate the reader’s emotions, with desire to change how city officials go about gentrification in culturally infused cities.

Urbanization is inevitable, whether we want it or not. Opposers are constantly bickering about the political and moral consequences of gentrification. This topic is indeed mind boggling and complex. However, there is a need to observe this multi-faceted phenomenon in a different angle. Change is the force of diversity, safety and

Residential segregation is a wide spread topic of discussion throughout cities across the United States. With population in larger cities growing, the separation of groups into neighborhoods is common — placing different standards of living on each section depending on the wealth and race of the inhabitants. In There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America William Julius Wilson and Richard P. Taub explore a new areas of Chicago and the residential segregation taking place there by creating a

Inequality has been the country’s timeless struggle. Throughout the course of the United States’ history, there have been processes that have given a certain group of people the upper hand in a circumstance, thus fueling inequality in our nation. An ongoing process that negatively effects the lower-class and benefits the upper-class is called gentrification. Gentrification has been defined as “the replacement of the low-income, inner-city working-class residents by middle- or upper-class households, either through the market for existing housing or demolition to make way for new upscale housing construction” (Hammel and Wyly, 1996, p.250). Gentrification is deleterious because it “revitalizes” areas where low income residents reside in, thus causing the displacement and allows affluent residents to flood the given area whilst changing the entire environment from its original state. In my paper, I will be discussing how the process of gentrification begins and what it entails, define longtime residents, and describe the feelings of displacement felt by these residents.

There are many who suggest the solution to the decline of the suburbs is to urbanize the area by densifying and overall making the suburbs more similar to a city. Laura Vaughan argues that the development of a spatial layout similar to that of a city would help the suburbs to become more efficient socially and economically. However, this approach directly contrasts the purpose of the suburbs, which was originally meant to provide a private, quiet environment for single family homes away from loud and busy city life. In his book, “Sprawl: A Compact History,” Robert Bruegmann explains that suburbia is not a bad thing but possesses “benefits that urban planners fail to recognize” and is a natural process of the growth of urbanism. While the suburban landscape does possess much potential, those who support the continued existence of the suburbs as they exist are naive and fail to recognize the environmental, social, and economical impact that the suburbs impose. The suburbs possess many social and political issues that need to be addressed. There is no doubt that there is massive potential in the suburban

Gentrification is generally usually picked implies, or possibly endeavored means, of reviving focal urban areas that have fallen on harsh circumstances. Gentrification is the way toward supplanting the poor populace of an area with the rich and reorienting the region along upscale lines. Gentrification grant has concentrated on characterizing the term and its starting points, understanding its results and perceiving gentrifiers ' identity and why and how they gentrify neighborhoods. The dislodging impacts of gentrification have been a focal concentration, despite the fact that in the previous decade researchers have likewise inspected gentrifiers including their inspirations and encounters and how gentrification mirrors their tastes and

Mathieu Kassovitz’s La Haine captures one day in the life of three young ‘outcasts’ from a French banlieue. French banlieues, or suburban outskirts, tend to emanate images of deviance, violence, and disorder among the majority of France. The film forces the viewer to acknowledge the marginalized others who are usually denied the right to represent themselves. La Haine challenges hegemonic conceptions of France’s imagined geographic identity, by exposing just one of the ways in which its society is actually segregated.

Viewing the complex matter of gentrification succinctly, it helps to uncover how multifaceted it is; in that gentrification involves the oppression, marginalization, displacement of vulnerable populations, particularly, the poor, and the black who are often already negatively impacted by the effects of classism, and racism. Gentrification threatens to erode the communities and livelihood maintained by these set of people because their displacement becomes a precondition for the total transformation of the area.

Gentrification is a process in which wealthier people move into an existing urban community. As rent and the price of living goes up, lower income people who cannot afford to live in the community anymore are driven out. Neil Smith, in his essay Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy, argues that gentrification has evolved from an unplanned and haphazard process and into a ‘crucial urban strategy’ that capitalistic urban governments utilize for the convenience of capitalist production.

East Los Angeles (Boyle Heights) is undergoing the process of Gentrification. Gentrification is defined as the process of renovating and improving a house or district so that it conforms to middle-class taste. Some scholars define gentrification as private sector-initiated residential and commercial investment in urban neighborhoods accompanied by inflows of households with higher socioeconomic status than the neighborhood’s initial residents. (Vigdor, Massey and Rivlin, 2002, P. 135). One of the problems with gentrification in Boyle Heights is that the community members that are currently residing and working in Boyle Heights are not middle class and thus, the gentrification does not apply to them. The nature of the problem stems from the unintended consequences of revitalizing a district or a home and history. On the surface, the word revitalization/gentrification appears to be a good thing. However, when revitalization’s sole purpose is to target a specific social economic group, it creates a wave of problems. Some of those problems or unintended consequences, include but are not limited to, displacing families that have lived in a community for decades or even centuries, driving businesses out, create tensions in communities that insight protest and/or unrest. According to research, some potential negative outcomes of gentrification-most importantly, the displacement of previous occupants of urban

On November 13th, the class was shown a movie titled “Carte Land”. The movie involved the opinions and actions from two distinct groups from the United States and Mexico who, in their own way, fight a war against the cartels. The movie began with a scene involving meth cookers who described what their situation was. The film then transitioned to interviewing a man named Tim Foley, a U.S. minute man, who sees himself as a warrior against the Mexican Cartels. In order to protect, not only his property, and those around him, he has created an organization of men and women that travel through the dessert of Arizona in search of cartel members, and immigrants. The next activist that we were introduced to was Jose Mireles, a doctor from Mexico,

The film, Poniente clearly demonstrated the issues of race and class within Spain. All throughout the film, aggression from the local Spanish residents was seen towards the migrant workers. The workers, many of whom were from Morocco or other parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, were underpaid for their labor, threatened, verbally and physically abused, and thought to be easily replaced by their employers. Said, for example, nearly bought his own place to live, but the landlord rented it out to someone else, most likely because of race. All these acts of violence cumulates and results in the final scene of the film; where the residents riot and attack the workers, thinking they had set fire to the greenhouse.

David Harvey argues that the control and direction of the urban process helps fix the problem of absorption of surplus capital and surplus labor. Harvey believes that the right to the city is a human right. People and communities can exhibit this right through “collective power to reshape the processes of urbanization” (Harvey, 23). Capitalists have taken this right away by controlling the direction of the urban process. He briefly explains how the laws of accumulation allow capitalists to accumulate more capital. Harvey believes that urbanization projects are influenced by crisis of state, finance, and capital accumulation. He examines the link between capitalism and urbanization to demonstrate how Haussmann’s reshaping of Paris in the 1850’s

The marginalization and isolation found in the suburbs of Paris are the results of 20th century postwar Paris failed urban planning. City officials attempted to reconstruct Paris into a better functioning community based on models of metropolitan areas; whose designs broke the city into sections. As a result, urban planners created separation among classes, which produced a loss of connection and identity for immigrant families. That division created isolation that became a breeding ground for hostile attitudes, serotypes, and generations of poverty; these increased tension centered on race and wealth are today issues modern Paris’s most pressing issues. The flawed urban planning that gave birth to the suburbs created what Prime Minister Manuel