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The undesirable many : Black women and their struggles against displacement and housing insecurity in the nation's capital / Rosemary Ndubuizu.

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Author/Creator:
Ndubuizu, Rosemary, Author.
Contributor:
JSTOR (Online Service)
Series:
Justice, power, and politics http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/67a2fd40-bf33-fd0b-ad25-a5650ab9e121
Justice, power, and politics
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Discrimination in housing--Washington (D.C.).
Discrimination in housing.
Poor African Americans--Housing--Washington (D.C.).
Poor African Americans.
African American women--Washington (D.C.)--Social conditions.
African American women.
African American women--Political activity--Washington (D.C.).
Rental housing--Political aspects--Washington (D.C.).
Rental housing.
Sex discrimination against women--Washington (D.C.).
Sex discrimination against women.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Place of Publication:
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2025.
Contents:
Cover
Halftitle
Series Page
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Who Belongs in the City?
1. Finding "Problem Families"": The Origins of Disciplinary Housing Governance
2. Silent No Longer: Black Mothers, Tenant Revolt, and Evolving Opposition
3. Black (Class) Chasms: DC's Rent Control Debates, Underclass Discourse, and the Marginalization of Black Women in the 1970s and 1980s
4. I Want to Own the Plantations: Tenant Management, Conservative Populism, and Austerity Politics in the 1980s
5. Like Middle-Class People without Money: Urban Growth Politics and the Return of the "Honorable Poor" at the Turn of the Twenty First Century
Conclusion: Like We Don't Belong
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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D
E
F
G
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I
J
K
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M
N
O
P
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T
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W
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Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
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Print version: Ndubuizu, Rosemary. Undesirable many.
Print version:
ISBN:
9781469689715
1469689715
9781469689722
1469689723
Publisher Number:
40032982478
CIPO000289380
Access Restriction:
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