Race, class, power, and organizing in East Baltimore : rebuilding abandoned communities in America / Marisela B. Gomez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gomez, Marisela B., 1965-

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community development, Urban.

Community organization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Lexington Books, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Using the East Baltimore community as an example this book examines historical and current rebuilding practices in abandoned communities in urban America, their structural causes, and outcomes on the health of the place and the people. The role of community organizing as a necessary means to assure benefit during and after resident displacement, its challenges and successes, are described in the context of a current eminent domain-driven rebuilding project in East Baltimore.

Contents:

Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Boxes; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Racial and Class Oppression and a Century of Building and Rebuilding East Baltimore; Chapter 01. Race Separation in Historic East Baltimore: Yesterday and Today; Chapter 02. East Baltimore's Community Rebuilding History: Abandonment and Displacement; Chapter 03. Organized Communities and Resistance in East Baltimore's Past and Present; Part II: Race, Class, Power, and Organizing in Present-Day East Baltimore

Chapter 04. The First 10 Years of Rebuilding Middle East Baltimore: The Struggle for Inclusion and Justice for AllChapter 05. Who the Stakeholders Are in Rebuilding Middle East Baltimore; Chapter 06. Displacement and Disbanding of a Movement for Community Participation: Why, How, and Afterward; Part III: The Future of East Baltimore: Race, Class, Power and Organizing as Causes and Consequences in Rebuilding Abandoned Communities; Chapter 07. Who Benefits and Suffers From Rebuilding Abandoned Communities?

Chapter 08. Rebuilding Communities Across the United States and Abroad: What Can East Baltimore Do Better?Chapter 09. Poverty of Health; Chapter 10. The Next 10 Years: Moving Toward Equity or the Same Ole Experiment?; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

979-88-8188-606-6

1-9787-2632-5

1-283-84826-0

0-7391-7501-7

OCLC:

823170176