Table of Contents
Introduction 000
Why Tell This story? 000 The Story: Rebuilding Middle East Baltimore 000 Health Outcomes 000 The Theory 000 Community Rebuilding 000 Community Organizing 000 How Rebuilding Occurs 000 Who is Telling the Story? 000 Summary of Chapters 000
Section One: Racial and Class Oppression and a Century of Building and Rebuilding East Baltimore
1 Race Separation in Historic East Baltimore: Yesterday and Today 000
Racial Segregation Establishes Baltimore 000 Racist and Classist Real Estate and Employment Practices in Early Baltimore 000 Where is Middle East Baltimore? 000 Social and Economic Conditions in East Baltimore: coming into the present 000 Community Life in Middle East Baltimore 000 Johns Hopkins Hospital 000 Disparate Growth of Two Neighbors in the Midst of Distrust 000 Separate and Unequal: Cause and Consequence of Community Change 000
Rebuilding in the Early 1900s 000 The major developer in East Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1912–1950’s 000 Broadway Redevelopment Project in East Baltimore: 1950–1961 000 Gay Street I Project in East Baltimore: 1965–1975 000 Rounding Out Community Development in East Baltimore in the 20th century: 1975–2000 000 Middle East Baltimore Rebuilding Project: 2001 – Present 000
3 Organized communities and Resistance in East Baltimore’s Past and Present 000
Organizing to Address Disparity in Mid- 1900’s East Baltimore 000 Other Organizational Bases in East Baltimore Since the Early 1900’s: Faith-Based and Social Clubs 000 Challenges to Organizing in the Face of Continued Public Disinvestment and Neglect in Late 1900’s East Baltimore 000 The Johns Hopkins Community as a Challenge to Organizational Stability and Resistance in 1900‘s East Baltimore 000 Save Middle East Action Committee: Organizing and Resisting in 2001 000 What SMEAC Would Do Differently 000 SMEAC’s Goals 000 Community Participation: the Core Value 000 Skillful Means: Organizing, Advocating, Leadership Development 000 Organized Resistance Affects Change 000
Section Two: Race, Class, Power and Organizing in Present-Day East Baltimore
4 The First 10 Years of Rebuilding Middle East Baltimore: The Struggle for Inclusion and Justice for All 000
The Continuous Struggle for Inclusion 000 The plans: 1994, 2000, 2001, 2002 000 SMEAC Struggles for a Decision-Making Voice on the Governing Board 000 SMEAC Responds to the Master Plan 000 Community Participation and Struggle for Justice in Relocation 000 Relocation Policy Changes as Community Resist Segregation, Again 000 Phase 2: More Changes in Relocation and Master Plan 000 The New School 000 The Struggle to Require Safety Procedures for Demolition 000 The Struggle for Construction of Affordable Housing 000 Master Plan Changes again but Exclusion of Residents Do Not 000 The Struggle to Prevent Gentrification: Affording the New Taxes and 000 Participation in a Benefits District: Why the Same Experiment Again? 000
5 Who the stakeholders are in rebuilding Middle East Baltimore 000
The Role and Responsibility of Community 000 Community Challenging the Dynamics of Paternalism and Non-transparency 000 Who Were These Outside Stakeholders and What Were Their Interests? 000 Foundations 000 Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions (JHMI) 000 City Government 000 Elected Officials 000 East Baltimore Development Inc. (EBDI) 000 Financial Accountability and Why It Matters 000
6 Displacement and Disbanding of a Movement for Community Participation: 000
Why, How, and Afterward: Growing Displacement of the Base? 000 Insufficient Bridging Relationships 000 Tired From the Struggle: Changing Priorities, Changing plans 000 Changes Within SMEAC 000 Individuality and Loss of History in Post-Displacement Middle East Baltimore 000
Section Three: The future of East Baltimore: Race, Class, Power and Organizing as Causes and Consequences in Rebuilding Abandoned Communities
7 Who Benefits and Suffers From Rebuilding Abandoned Communities? 000
Planning and Decision-Making 000 Where is the “Responsible Relocation Benefit Package” for Returning Residents? 000 What About the Communities Peripheral to Middle East Baltimore? 000 Eminent Domain as a Potential Tool of Injustice: Was It legal to Use Eminent Domain in This Way? 000 Abandoned Communities are Prey to Being Left Out in Eminent Domain–Driven Redevelopment 000 Moving and Concentrating Poverty of Place and People 000 Acknowledging the Difference in Power and Its Effect is Beneficial 000
8 Rebuilding communities across the United States and abroad: what can East Baltimore do better? 000
Communities participating and Not-Participating in Rebuilding Their Communities 000 Oldtown, Baltimore 000 Sandtown-Winchester, Baltimore 000 Boston, Massachusetts 000 Miami, Florida 000 New York, New York 000 Portland, Oregon 000 San Diego, California 000 Miller, Liverpool, Australia 000 Perpignan, France 000
9 Poverty of Health 000
Structural Inequality and Health 000 Healthy Places and Healthy People 000 Power Determines Choices, Behaviors, and Environment 000 Discrimination Results in Poor Health 000 The Health of Abandoned Communities in Baltimore: Past and Present 000 Separate and Unequal Communities, Unequal Health 000 Organizing, Community Participation, and Health 000 Middle East Baltimore’s Children are at Risk 000 Moving Beyond Poverty of Health with Freedom of Choice 000
10 The Next 10 Years: Moving Toward Equity or the Same Ole Experiment? 000
The Inequality of Power and the Inequity in Benefit 000 Framework for Change 000 Healing 000 Organizing, Advising, and Deciding 000 A Comprehensive and Participatory Plan 000 Why Change Now? 000 Evaluating the First 10 Years and Getting it Right in the Next 10 Benefits All 000
Epilogue 000
Bibliography 000
Author 000
Index 000