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

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Gomez, Marisela B, 1965-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Lanham : Lexington Books, c2013.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 271 p.)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780739175019
0739175017
1283848260
9781283848268

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Race, class, power, and organizing in East BaltimoreDDC classification:

307.1/416097526 23

LOC classification:

HN80.B3

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Contents:

Why tell this story? -- The story : rebuilding Middle East Baltimore -- Health outcomes -- The theory -- Community rebuilding -- Community organizing -- How rebuilding occurs -- Who is telling the story?

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.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-265) and index.

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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.

Text in English.

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