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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... area of residential desegregation. That dissertation mu- tated and expanded into this book. In my attempt to explain the failure of residential desegregation poli- cies, I have received help and gained wisdom from a wide array of gener ...
... area marked more by policy failure than success. Carroll Estes, Margaret Weir, Jill Quadagno, Richard Scheffler (the Berkeley site director), and Mark Schlesinger are especially deserving of my gratitude. My colleagues at Berkeley were ...
... areas of civil rights : employment , education , and housing . Congress enacted legal protections against hous- ing discrimination four years after the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964 , which prohibited discrimination in employment ...
... areas cannot endure . . . a run- down , festering black core , surrounded by a well - to - do , indifferent white ring , " he said on one occasion in 1970.2 On another , he insisted that " the most explosive threat to our nation is the ...
... areas, such as employment and education, where the 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 ...
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