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The undesirable many : Black women and their struggles against displacement and housing insecurity in the nation's capital / Rosemary Ndubuizu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ndubuizu, Rosemary, Author.
- 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
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Ndubuizu, Rosemary. Undesirable many.
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781469689715
- 1469689715
- 9781469689722
- 1469689723
- Publisher Number:
- 40032982478
- CIPO000289380
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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