ICYMI on KPBS Midday Edition: Local author Alana Quintana Albertson's latest book, 'Ramón and Julieta,' delves into gentrification and 'gentefication' in local Mexican-American communities — in a Latinx retelling of Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet.'
"What's at stake is if Julieta can't work in her neighborhood — and her restaurant is more than a restaurant. She gives children free meals and it's a gathering thing. So to take them out because she's priced out, she can't afford it, really kind of destroys the seam of the community," Quintana Albertson said.
"The owner of the block, one of the reasons he chose Ramón and his father to sell the thing, is because they were Mexican, he kind of felt that maybe they would preserve the culture. And then Ramón didn't care, he was just going to come in and put his restaurant in there. So gentefication is when someone from their own culture who is coming in to gentrify the neighborhood," Quintana Albertson said.
Using such a complex theme in an otherwise light-hearted, steamy romance novel is Quintana Albertson's intent as an author. In writing about gentrification, she wanted to make the story about the people and communities affected by development.
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