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Behind ghetto walls : Black families in a federal slum.
LIBRA E185.86 .R29
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rainwater, Lee.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Social conditions--1964-1975.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Social conditions.
- African Americans--Social life and customs--20th century.
- African American families.
- African Americans--Missouri--Saint Louis--Social conditions--20th century.
- African Americans--Missouri--Saint Louis--Social life and customs--20th century.
- African American families--Missouri--Saint Louis--History--20th century.
- Poor--Missouri--Saint Louis--History--20th century.
- Poor.
- Inner cities--Missouri--Saint Louis--History--20th century.
- Inner cities.
- Public housing--Missouri--Saint Louis--History--20th century.
- Public housing.
- History.
- Manners and customs.
- Social conditions.
- African Americans--Social life and customs.
- Saint Louis (Mo.)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Saint Louis (Mo.).
- Black or African American.
- Family.
- Poverty.
- Social Conditions.
- Missouri--Saint Louis.
- Medical Subjects:
- Black or African American.
- Family.
- Poverty.
- Social Conditions.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 446 pages ; 25 cm
- regular print
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Ill. : Aldine Pub. Co., [1970]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Houses divided
- The Pruitt-Igoe community
- Thomas Coolidge
- The potential of people
- The Madison family
- Daily life in Pruitt-Igoe
- The Patterson family
- Marital roles and marital disruption
- Clara Johnson and her family
- Parents and their children
- Alice Walker becomes a woman
- The peer group and adolescent socialization
- The salad days of John Martin
- Negro lower-class identity and culture
- Toward equality.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-440).
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Nonfiction, Winner, 1973
- ISBN:
- 0202301133
- 9780202301136
- 0202301141
- 9780202301143
- OCLC:
- 93712
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