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"...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Williams, Rhonda Y.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Colección:Transgressing boundaries.
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.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
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:
  • 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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