Knocking on the door : the federal government's attempt to desegregate the suburbs /
Knocking on the Door is the first book-length work to analyze federal involvement in residential segregation from Reconstruction to the present. Providing a particularly detailed analysis of the period 1968 to 1973, the book examines how the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) att...
| Основен автор: | Bonastia, Christopher, 1967- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2008.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=273102 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Knocking on the door. |
| Резюме: |
Knocking on the Door is the first book-length work to analyze federal involvement in residential segregation from Reconstruction to the present. Providing a particularly detailed analysis of the period 1968 to 1973, the book examines how the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) attempted to forge elementary changes in segregated residential patterns by opening up the suburbs to groups historically excluded for racial or economic reasons. The door did not shut completely on this possibility until President Richard Nixon took the drastic step of freezing all federal housing fun. |
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| Описание на библ. документ: |
Originally published: 2006. |
| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xi, 234 pages) |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-225) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781400827251 1400827256 1282086790 9781282086791 |