Race Class Power Amp Organizing

Informationen zum Autor By Marisela B. Gomez Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionChapter 1: Race Separation in Historic East Baltimore: Yesterday and Today Chapter 2: East Baltimore's Community Rebuilding History Chapter 3: Organized communities and Resistance in East Baltimore's Past and PresentChapter 4: The First 10 Years of Rebuilding Middle East BaltimoreChapter 5: Who the stakeholders are in rebuilding Middle East BaltimoreChapter 6: Displacement and Disbanding of a Movement for Community ParticipationChapter 7: Who Benefits and Suffers From Rebuilding Abandoned Communities?Chapter 8: Rebuilding communities across the United States and abroadChapter 9: Poverty of Health Chapter 10: The Next 10 Years: Moving Toward Equity or the Same Ole Experiment?

Product details

• Authors: Marisela B. Gomez
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2015
• EAN: 9781498511612
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-1161-2
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, Social groups, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Human Geography, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Social groups, communities and identities