Knocking on the Door: The Federal Government's Attempt to Desegregate the SuburbsPrinceton University Press, 2010 M11 16 - 256 pages 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 funds in January 1973. Knocking on the Door assesses this near-miss in political history, exploring how HUD came surprisingly close to implementing rigorous antidiscrimination policies, and why the agency's efforts were derailed by Nixon. |
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... American social policies and on ways in which to study them. He also provided valuable personal and professional ... America. John's generosity with his time and energy is even more commendable given that he was a “nonresi- dent” member ...
... Americans are left with another civil rights milestone to consider. Recently, journalists, scholars, movement participants, and politicians have pondered the impact of the Fair Housing Act of 1968 (the year 2003 marked its thirty-fifth ...
... American homeowners lower returns on their investment , and it limits employment opportunities . Racially separate ... Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities from obtaining hous- ing wherever they could afford . The federal ...
... Americans and whites. This was the best opportunity that America had to devise political solu- tions to the problem of residential segregation. It also may have been the last one, at least for the foreseeable future. In accord with the ...
... American state - building is persuasive ; however , his findings do not map neatly onto the civil rights agencies created in the 1960s . While agencies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries typically employed strategies ...
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