The dignity of resistance : women residents' activism in Chicago public housing /
This comprehensive case study chronicles the four decade history of Chicago's Wentworth Gardens public housing residents' grassroots activism. It explores why and how the African-American women residents creatively and effectively engaged in organizing efforts to resist increasing governme...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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Colección: | Cambridge series in environment and behavior.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Struggles for homeplace
- U.S. Public Housing Policies : Wentworth Gardens' historic backdrop
- Memory of a better past, reality of the present : the impetus for resident activism
- The community household : the foundation of everyday resistance
- The Local Advisory Council (LAC) : a site of women-centered organizing
- Women-centered leadership : a case study
- The appropriation of homeplace : organizing for the spatial resources to sustain everyday life
- The WhiteSox "Battle" : protest and betrayal
- Linking legal action and economic development : tensions and strains
- Becoming resident managers : a bureaucratic quagmire
- Resistance in context.