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The 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 "welfare queens"...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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| Colección: | Transgressing boundaries.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 "welfare queens" living off the state, with little ambition or hope of an independent future. At the same time, the history of the civil rights movement has all too often succumbed to an idolatry that stresses the centrality of prominent leaders while overlooking those who fought daily for their survival in an often hostile urban land. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 306 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-295) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1423720369 9781423720362 1602568774 9781602568778 9786610502899 6610502897 0199882762 9780199882762 1280502894 9781280502897 0198036035 9780198036036 |