A historic Houston barrio provides an illuminating lens on neighborhood reputation. -Neighborhoods have the power to form significant parts of our worlds and identities. A neighborhood-s reputation, however, doesn-t always match up to how residents see themselves or wish to be seen. The distance between residents- desires and their environment can profoundly shape neighborhood life. --In A Good Reputation, sociologists Elizabeth Korver-Glenn and Sarah Mayorga delve into the development and transformation of the reputation of Northside, a predominantly Latinx barrio in Houston. Drawing on two years of ethnographic research and in-depth interviews with residents, developers, and other neighborhood stakeholders, the authors show that people-s perceptions of their neighborhoods are essential to understanding urban inequality and poverty. Korver-Glenn and Mayorga-s empirically detailed account of disputes over neighborhood reputation helps readers understand the complexity of high-poverty u
