Root shock: the consequences of African American dispossession

Fullilove, Mindy Thompson

doi:10.1093/jurban/78.1.72

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“…In addition, the bridging social capital between the state and large private developer in initiating redevelopment in the neighborhood has resulted in resident distrust toward local government institutions, as they are held accountable for the failure to address their rights of real-estate ownership. Moreover, our findings are congruent with previous observations in East Baltimore and elsewhere indicating that when redevelopment results in the displacement of residents without assurance of adequate shelter, the health of community residents suffers through mental disorder, exacerbation of chronic illness and subsequently premature death (Broussar, 2000;Cattell, 2001;Cockerham, 1998;Fullilove, 2001;Muntaner et al, 1998).…”

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Urban redevelopment and neighborhood health in East Baltimore, Maryland: The role of communitarian and institutional social capital

Gomez¹,

Muntaner

2005

Critical Public Health

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Using qualitative research methods, this paper explores the role of social capital in affecting the health of an urban neighborhood undergoing redevelopment in East Baltimore, Maryland. Descriptive secondary data on redevelopment, health, and social capital in East Baltimore, Maryland and health in Baltimore City, Maryland are presented. The authors show how the private institution driving redevelopment in this neighborhood affects and is affected by the social capital of this community (communitarian and institutional forms of social capital). Next, primary ethnographic data from informal/ unstructured interviews, focus groups, a listening project, and in-depth key informant interviews are presented. These data show how local government affects the institutional social capital in this community. The qualitative results describe a current state:public relationship in East Baltimore that reflects insufficient institutional social capital (i.e. power to influence government institutions) in this community. Data show a community with minimal bridging social capital with the state government or the private developer in their community. Furthermore, residents feel that the bonding social capital between some community associations leads to mistrust of community leaders who represented them at negotiations with the state or the large private developer. This framework is used to evaluate how the political, economic and cultural context of a community affects its social capital and in turn the health of neighborhoods undergoing redevelopment.

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Urban redevelopment and neighborhood health in East Baltimore, Maryland: The role of communitarian and institutional social capital

Gomez¹,

Muntaner

2005

Critical Public Health

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“…In particular, relocation may disrupt geographically rooted social ties that are anchored within public housing communities and provide psychosocial and material support that can mitigate weathering among their residents. [20][21][22][23][24] Additionally, we consider how HOPE VI may affect a broader discourse on urban poverty and contribute to the perpetuation of structural inequalities. Some analysts have argued that relocation as a "spatial remedy" cannot address deeply rooted structural inequalities that contribute to weathering.…”

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“Weathering” HOPE VI: The Importance of Evaluating the Population Health Impact of Public Housing Demolition and Displacement

Keene

Geronimus

2011

J Urban Health

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HOPE VI has funded the demolition of public housing developments across the United States and created in their place mixed-income communities that are often inaccessible to the majority of former tenants. This recent uprooting of low-income, urban, and predominantly African American communities raises concern about the health impacts of the HOPE VI program for a population that already shoulders an enormous burden of excess morbidity and mortality. In this paper, we rely on existing literature about HOPE VI relocation to evaluate the program from the perspective of weathering-a biosocial process hypothesized by Geronimus to underlie early health deterioration and excess mortality observed among African Americans. Relying on the weathering framework, we consider the effects of HOPE VI relocation on the material context of urban poverty, autonomous institutions that are health protective, and on the broader discourse surrounding urban poverty. We conclude that relocated HOPE VI residents have experienced few improvements to the living conditions and economic realities that are likely sources of stress and illness among this population. Additionally, we find that relocated residents must contend with these material realities, without the health-protective, community-based social resources that they often rely on in public housing. Finally, we conclude that by disregarding the significance of health-protective autonomous institutions and by obscuring the structural context that gave rise to racially segregated public housing projects, the discourse surrounding HOPE VI is likely to reinforce health-demoting stereotypes of low-income urban African American communities. Given the potential for urban and housing policies to negatively affect the health of an already vulnerable population, we argue that a health-equity perspective is a critical component of future policy conversations.

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“…Gentrification puts emphasis on the fact that new or restored environmental goods tend to be accompanied by rising property values, which in turn attracts wealthier groups, while creating greater gap with poorer neighborhoods where lower classes are forced to move because this is where they can afford to live (Gould and Lewis, 2012). In many ways, green gentrification is the flipside of what Mindy Fullilove (Fullilove, 2001), John Betancur, and Don Parson (Betancur, 2002;Parson, 1982) respectively called ''Negro Removal'' or ''Latino Removal,'' because displacement is followed by ''green and white arrival.'' The racial aspect of whiteness is in some ways hidden and invisibilized by the word ''green.''…”

Section: Environmental Gentrification and Urban Food Justice: An Emermentioning

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Alternative food provision conflicts in cities: Contesting food privilege, injustice, and whiteness in Jamaica Plain, Boston

Anguelovski

2015

Geoforum

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Root shock: the consequences of African American dispossession

Cited by 100 publications

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Urban redevelopment and neighborhood health in East Baltimore, Maryland: The role of communitarian and institutional social capital

Urban redevelopment and neighborhood health in East Baltimore, Maryland: The role of communitarian and institutional social capital

“Weathering” HOPE VI: The Importance of Evaluating the Population Health Impact of Public Housing Demolition and Displacement

Alternative food provision conflicts in cities: Contesting food privilege, injustice, and whiteness in Jamaica Plain, Boston

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