The politics of public housing [electronic resource] : Black women's struggles against urban inequality / by Rhonda Y. Williams.
By: Williams, Rhonda Y.
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BookSeries: Transgressing boundaries: Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2004Description: xiii, 306 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Poor women -- Maryland -- Baltimore | Poor women -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Political activity | African American women -- Maryland -- Baltimore | Welfare recipients -- Maryland -- Baltimore | Women heads of households -- Maryland -- Baltimore | Low-income housing -- Maryland -- Baltimore | Public welfare -- Maryland -- BaltimoreGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 305.48/896073075271 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-295) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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