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Author:

Williams, Rhonda Y.

Title:

The politics of public housing : Black women's struggles against urban inequality / by Rhonda Y. Williams.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2004

Description:

xiii, 306 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Poor women--Baltimore.--Baltimore.
Poor women--Baltimore--Baltimore--Political activity.
African American women--Baltimore.--Baltimore.
Welfare recipients--Baltimore.--Baltimore.
Women heads of households--Baltimore.--Baltimore.
Low-income housing--Baltimore.--Baltimore.
Public welfare--Baltimore.--Baltimore.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-295) and index.

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.

Series:

Transgressing boundaries

ISBN:

9780195158908
0195158903

OCLC:

(OCoLC)53287744

LCCN:

2003023137

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)