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From the April 18 edition of The Chronicle Herald:

Ingrid Waldron vividly recalls when she arrived in Halifax in 2008 that an apartment building manager bluntly told her that the city’s north end “was not a place that you want to live.”

“So I quickly came to know that this was a place that was stigmatized in Halifax,” Waldron, an assistant professor of nursing at Dalhousie University, said in an interview.

“From that point until now, what a change — now it’s become the place to live.

“The north end has become now kind of destigmatized — destigmatized for members of the racially dominant group (whites) but I think that there’s a stigma if you are African-Nova Scotian living in the north end because you’re not seen as part of gentrification, as part of the good things happening in the north end. You’re seen as a remnant of an older time where things were perceived as negative in the north end, if you are an African-Nova Scotian.”

Waldron recently released a study titled North End Matters that examined the social, economic, educational and health experiences of 48 black residents, many whom have historic connections to the Gottingen Street/Uniacke Square neighbourhood.

Participants included 33 women and 15 men, ranging in age from early 20s to 60s. Nine were immigrants from Africa.

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