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Race, Class, Power, and Organizing in East Baltimore - Rebuilding Abandoned Communities in America (Paperback)
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Race, Class, Power, and Organizing in East Baltimore - Rebuilding Abandoned Communities in America (Paperback)
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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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