Politics of Public Housing : Black Women's Struggles Against Urban Inequality.

Black women have traditionally represented the canvas on which many debates about poverty and welfare have been drawn. For a quarter century after the publication of the notorious Moynihan report, poor black women were tarred with the same brush: ""ghetto moms"" or ""we...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Williams, Rhonda
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cary : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Temas:
Poor women > Maryland > Baltimore.
Poor women > Political activity > Maryland > Baltimore.
African American women > Maryland > Baltimore.
Welfare recipients > Maryland > Baltimore.
Women heads of households > Maryland > Baltimore.
Low-income housing > Maryland > Baltimore.
Public welfare > Maryland > Baltimore.
Femmes pauvres > Maryland > Baltimore.
Femmes pauvres > Activité politique > Maryland > Baltimore.
Noires américaines > Maryland > Baltimore.
Aide sociale > Bénéficiaires > Maryland > Baltimore.
Femmes chefs de famille > Maryland > Baltimore.
Pauvres > Logement > Maryland > Baltimore.
Aide sociale > Maryland > Baltimore.
African American women
Low-income housing
Poor women
Poor women > Political activity
Public welfare
Welfare recipients
Women heads of households
Maryland > Baltimore
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title Page; Copyright Page; Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I Beginnings; 1 Creating "A Little Heaven for Poor People" Decent Housing and Respectable Communities; 2 "A Woman Can Understand" Dissidence in 1940s Public Housing; Part II Shifting Landscapes; 3 Shifting Landscapes in Postwar Baltimore; 4 "When Then Came the Change" The Fight against Disrepute; Part III Respect, Rights, and Power; 5 "An Awakening Giant" The Search for Poor People's Political Power; 6 "Sunlight at Early Dawn" Economic Struggles, Public Housing, and Welfare Rights; Epilogue.
  • Abbreviations in Notes and BibliographyNotes; Bibliography; Index.

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