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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... United Kingdom : Published by Princeton University Press , 6 Oxford Street , Woodstock , Oxfordshire OX20 1TW All ... United States - History - 20th century . 2. Discrimination in housing - Government policy — United States — History ...
... United States Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ) —took this responsibility seriously , and worked to fashion deseg- regation policies that rivaled the intensity of those that were being imple- mented in employment and ...
... United States adopted stronger (though by no means flawless) race-conscious policies in trying to reduce inequality between African Americans and whites. This was the best opportunity that America had to devise political solu- tions to ...
... United States. This point notwithstanding, one cannot explain the differing outcomes of federal desegregation ini- tiatives by examining the career considerations of the people who headed the agencies in question; a more systemic ...
... United States, taking ambiguous positions, especially on divisive issues, may often represent the best strategy for electoral candi- dates. For officeholders, however, the strategy of blame avoidance does not always entail “ambiguity ...
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