The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination

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The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination
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AuthorSarah Schulman
LanguageEnglish
GenreNon-fiction, memoir
Publisher University of California Press
Publication date
February 6, 2012
Publication placeUnited States
Pages352
Awards Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir or Biography (finalist, 2013)
ISBN 9780520264779

The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination is a memoir by American AIDS historian and activist Sarah Schulman, published in 2012 by University of California Press. [1] The book links the AIDS epidemic in the United States in the 1980s to the process of gentrification, with a focus on New York City. It was nominated for the 2013 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir or Biography. [2] [3]

Reception

Olivia Laing on New Statesman described the book as "a polemic, a passionate, provocative and at times scattergun account of disappearance, forgetfulness and untimely death". [4] According to Emily Douglas on the Los Angeles Review of Books , the book provides "a galvanizing account of the transformation, both external and mental, in New York City life", but "with limited empathy for, or insight into, what making a life in the city requires today". [5]

Slate listed the book as one of the overlooked books of 2012, describing it as a "heartbreaking memoir and a get-off-your-ass polemic". [6]

References

  1. ↑ "The Gentrification of the Mind by Sarah Schulman". University of California Press. 2020-06-15. Retrieved 2025-08-20.
  2. ↑ "25th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced!". Lambda Literary. 4 June 2013. Archived from the original on 2022-01-08. Retrieved 2022-01-11.
  3. ↑ Yates, Ryan (4 June 2013). "2013 Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced". Autostraddle. Archived from the original on 2022-01-12. Retrieved 2022-01-11.
  4. ↑ Laing, Olivia (2013-03-07). "Reviewed: The Gentrification of the Mind by Sarah Schulman". New Statesman. Retrieved 2025-08-20.
  5. ↑ "Intellectual Property: Sarah Schulman's "The Gentrification of the Mind"". Los Angeles Review of Books. 2012-06-08. Retrieved 2025-08-20.
  6. ↑ "Underrated books: Overlooked fiction and nonfiction of 2012". Slate Magazine. 2012-11-28. Retrieved 2025-08-20.
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