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The politics of public housing : Black women's struggles against urban inequality / by Rhonda Y. Williams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Rhonda Y., author.
- Series:
- Transgressing boundaries.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Transgressing boundaries
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poor women--Maryland--Baltimore.
- Poor women.
- Poor women--Political activity--Maryland--Baltimore.
- African American women--Maryland--Baltimore.
- African American women.
- Welfare recipients--Maryland--Baltimore.
- Welfare recipients.
- Women heads of households--Maryland--Baltimore.
- Women heads of households.
- Low-income housing--Maryland--Baltimore.
- Low-income housing.
- Public welfare--Maryland--Baltimore.
- Public welfare.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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"" living off the state, with little ambition or hope of an independent future. At the same time, the history of the civil rights movement has all too often succumbed to an idolatry that stresses the centrality of prominent leaders while overlooking those who fought daily for their survival in an often hostile urban
- 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:
- Previously issued in print: 2004.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-295) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-771543-5
- 0-19-988276-2
- 1-280-50289-4
- 1-4237-2036-9
- 0-19-803603-5
- 1-60256-877-4
- OCLC:
- 559933295
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