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Vida
Hard-hitting series exposes the gentrification process ravaging US cities
SISTER ACT: Michel Prada and Melissa Barrera in Vida
WILL STONE enjoys a set by an artist too eclectic to be pigeonholed
RUTH AYLETT reviews two collections of outright political poetry
The book feels like a writer working within his limits and not breaking any new ground, believes KEN COCKBURN
PRAGYA AGARWAL recommends a collection of drawings that explore the relation of indigenous people to the land in south Asia, Africa and the Caribbean
CHRIS SEALE speaks to Palestinian sound artist BINT MBAREH
MARY CONWAY applauds a brave and timely two hander that explores the difference between intimacy and abuse
REPORTS of a new kind of “white flight” to the suburbs, as in the 1960s, are currently all over the news in the US.
But this time it is also a flight from Covid-19 in beleaguered cities to the supposed safety of rural areas and the suburbs.
This flight is fuelling the decades-long process of gentrification and it’s the focus of a Mexican neighbourhood in the series Vida on Amazon Prime.
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