The politics of public housing [electronic resource] : Black women's struggles against urban inequality / by Rhonda Y. Williams.
Series: Transgressing boundariesPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.Description: xiii, 306 p. : illISBN:- 0195158903
- African American women -- Maryland -- Baltimore
- Low-income housing -- Maryland -- Baltimore
- Poor women -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Political activity
- Poor women -- Maryland -- Baltimore
- Public welfare -- Maryland -- Baltimore
- Welfare recipients -- Maryland -- Baltimore
- Women heads of households -- Maryland -- Baltimore
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- HV1447.B25 M55 2004eb
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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.
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