The fixers : devolution, development, and civil society in Newark, 1960-1990 /

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Stories of Newark's postwar decline are easy to find. But in The Fixers, Julia Rabig supplements these tales of misery with the story of the many imaginative challenges to the city's decline mounted by Newark's residents and suburban neighbors. In these pages, we meet the black nation...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rabig, Julia (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Colección:Historical studies of urban America.
Temas:
1900-1999
African Americans > New Jersey > Newark.
Noirs américains > New Jersey > Newark.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
African Americans
Social conditions
Newark (N.J.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
New Jersey > Newark
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • At the crossroads
  • Fighting for jobs in the "laboratory of democracy"
  • Restructure or rebel: Newark's war on poverty
  • "Case city number one": urban renewal and the Newark uprising
  • Fixers emerge
  • The making of a fixer: black power, corporate power, and affirmative action
  • Fixers for the 1970s: the Stella Wright rent strike and the transformation of public housing
  • Institutionalizing the movements
  • Black power, neighborhood power, and the growth of organizational fixers
  • From redeeming the cities to building the new ark: black nationalism and community economic development
  • The new community corporation: Catholic roots, suburban leverage, and pragmatism.

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