Download or read book Race, Class, Power, and Organizing in East Baltimore written by Marisela B. Gomez and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.