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What Does It Mean To Say Riverwest Is Integrated – Is It Really?

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GUEST COMMENTARY – by Jackie Reid Dettloff

It was Saturday afternoon when I read the January issue of Riverwest Currents with Tanya Cromartie-Twaddle’s “Living a Life Mosaic: Diversity in Riverwest.” The question, “how shall we live together?” was fresh in my mind the next morning, when I opened the Sunday Journal Sentinel and found the first of several articles on segregation in our city and its surrounding suburbs. Whether one agrees or not with Lois Quinn and John Pawasarat’s definition of an integrated neighborhood as being “20% white and at least 20% black,” the publication of the results of their study has opened a spirited dialogue. I see that as good.

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Group Efforts

by Mark Lawson

Recently in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel there was a lengthy article about Milwaukee’s collaborative visual arts groups. In part, this article was a response to a Jan. 19 article in the New York Times, “Doing Their Own Thing,” which identified Milwaukee as one city where artists made their own art scene through collaborative efforts.

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It’s Happening

by Dan Knauss

The official buzz is in the streets. In mid-January Tom Daykin wrote a front page Sunday feature in the Journal Sentinel about Riverwest as an up-and-coming neighborhood. It will be interesting to see what and who we “draw” in the next couple of years. Will the changes be substantial and dramatic? Will we lose our diversity? Will old-timers feel pushed out by “outsiders?”