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The politics of public housing : Black women's struggles against urban inequality / by Rhonda Y. Williams.
Van Pelt Library HV1447.B25 M55 2004
By Request
Van Pelt Library HV1447.B25 M55 2004
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Rhonda Y.
- Series:
- Transgressing boundaries
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poor women--Maryland--Baltimore.
- Poor women.
- Poor women--Political activity--Maryland--Baltimore.
- Poor women--Political activity.
- Public welfare.
- Low-income housing.
- Women heads of households.
- Welfare recipients.
- African American women.
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-295) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195158903
- OCLC:
- 53287744
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