White Prosperity Through Gentrification Of The Valley And...

White prosperity through gentrification is evident in that the Valley and the Bottom begin a reversal in inhabitants. More precisely, within the lines â€Å"Nobody colored lived much up in the Bottom anymore. White people were building towers for television stations up there and there was a rumor about a golf course† (Morrison,) the African-American community of the bottom was uprooted because of desegregation. Interestingly, the Bottom collapsed under the pressure of money, the space between people and families grew ever immense. Which is evident since Morrison explicitly states that where once theaters, shops, and hotels occupied TV and telephone towers employ these cavities. Where once the community was founded upon the decrepit hills of a joke the only voices one can hear is driving a wedge between civilization and love. Interestingly, Morrison implants these towers in an attempt to convey that the economic prosperity that forces the citizens of the Bottom into the valley is every separating the community even after they have gone. At this point in Sula, the reader is introduced to gentrification through wealthy individuals who buy the land and perpetually price the lower-class out of the Bottom and into the Valley. Within this scene, Morrison is interjecting a cycle that was in the past the land was thought to be fruitless and only worthy of African-American toil, now the Valley is establishing an institution of wealthy oppression upon the poor individuals within society.