The politics of public housing [electronic resource] : Black women's struggles against urban inequality / by Rhonda Y. Williams.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Transgressing boundariesPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.Description: xiii, 306 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.48/896073075271 22
LOC classification:
  • HV1447.B25 M55 2004eb
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Contents:
Creating "a little heaven for poor people": decent housing and respectable communities -- "A woman can understand": dissidence in 1940s' public housing -- Shifting landscapes in postwar Baltimore -- "When then came the change": the fight against disrepute -- "An awakening giant": the search for poor people's political power -- "Sunlight at early dawn": economic struggles, public housing and welfare rights.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-295) and index.

Creating "a little heaven for poor people": decent housing and respectable communities -- "A woman can understand": dissidence in 1940s' public housing -- Shifting landscapes in postwar Baltimore -- "When then came the change": the fight against disrepute -- "An awakening giant": the search for poor people's political power -- "Sunlight at early dawn": economic struggles, public housing and welfare rights.

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