9781498511612-1498511619-Race, Class, Power, and Organizing in East Baltimore: Rebuilding Abandoned Communities in America

Race, Class, Power, and Organizing in East Baltimore: Rebuilding Abandoned Communities in America

ISBN-13: 9781498511612
ISBN-10: 1498511619
Edition: Edition Unstated
Author: Marisela Gomez
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: Lexington Books
Format: Paperback 288 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781498511612
ISBN-10: 1498511619
Edition: Edition Unstated
Author: Marisela Gomez
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: Lexington Books
Format: Paperback 288 pages

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Race, Class, Power, and Organizing in East Baltimore: Rebuilding Abandoned Communities in America (ISBN-13: 9781498511612 and ISBN-10: 1498511619), written by authors Marisela Gomez, was published by Lexington Books in 2015. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other Urban Planning & Development (Social Sciences) books. You can easily purchase or rent Race, Class, Power, and Organizing in East Baltimore: Rebuilding Abandoned Communities in America (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Urban Planning & Development books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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This book examines the historical and current practices of rebuilding abandoned and disinvested communities in America. Using a community in East Baltimore as an example, Race, Class, Power, and Organizing in East Baltimore shows how the social structure of race and class segregation of the past contributed in the creation of our present day urban poor and low-income communities of color; and continue to affect the way we rebuild these communities today. Specific to East Baltimore is the presence of a powerful and prestigious medical complex which has directly and indirectly affected the abandonment and rebuilding of East Baltimore. While it has grown in power and land over the past 100 years, the neighborhoods around it have decreased in size and capital, widening the gap between the rich and the poor. The author offers a critical analysis of the relationships between powerful private institutions like the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and government and their intention in rebuilding urban communities by asking the question “How do we determine equity in benefit?” Focusing on a current rebuilding project using eminent domain to displace historical African-American communities, and the acquiring of land for private development, this book details the role of community organizing in challenging these types of non-community participatory rebuilding processes, resulting in the gentrification of urban neighborhoods. The detailed analysis of the community organizing process when families are displaced offers similarly affected communities a tool box for challenging current developers and government in unfair rebuilding practices. The context of these practices highlights the current laws and policies that contribute to continued displacement and disadvantage to poor communities without addressing the rhetoric of the intention of government-subsidized private development. This book examines the effect of such non-participatory and non-transparent rebuilding practices on the health of the people and place.

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