TY - BOOK AU - Williams,Rhonda Y. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - The politics of public housing: Black women's struggles against urban inequality T2 - Transgressing boundaries SN - 0195158903 AV - HV1447.B25 M55 2004eb U1 - 305.48/896073075271 22 PY - 2004/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - African American women KW - Maryland KW - Baltimore KW - Low-income housing KW - Poor women KW - Political activity KW - Public welfare KW - Welfare recipients KW - Women heads of households KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://ezproxy.alfaisal.edu/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/alfaisal/Doc?id=10103589 ER -