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anntieup's review
5.0
for when you move to Baltimore and can't figure out what the fuck happened here
gabi37avsfan's review
3.0
Interesting topic but the author is prone to presenting unsupportable opinion as fact. Most notably after spending the entire book laying the groundwork of segregation in housing (white, Jewish and black are the partitions) in Baltimore, the author chooses to declare that from some magical point thereon the Jewish people lived together because they wanted to and not because of continuing prejudice. Similarly, the book described the first appointment of a woman to a prominent position as the absolute end of the old boys club. No facts, citations or other support to back either of these propositions.
blkmymorris's review against another edition
2.0
It was a look at the history of segregation in Baltimore and Baltimore County. It was okay. I wasn't that familiar with Baltimore so I didn't get all the details. After 1960 or so it becomes more about the county. it's a bit hard to keep track of there's no clear narrative thrust and it jumps around between time period that relate to a certain issue. The information after 1990s is underdeveloped. The information on subprime loans and that discrimination is scanty and drawn from sources on other cities like Boston and Oakland.