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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... Economics and Po- litical Science as well as Sociology, and an office with a window (still my sole scholarly experience with natural light). It also spurred me to exam- ine civil rights enforcement in health care, another area marked ...
... economic isolation , effects that continue to accrue today . At the dawn of the Nixon Administration , the time was ripe for federal action to foster residential desegregation . In fact , this opportu- nity to attack discrimination and ...
... economic exclusion. Ultimately, these efforts came unhinged. The Nixon Administration merits close examination as a pivotal period in explain- ing the divergence of federal civil rights policies in housing from those in other areas ...
... economic segregation to the greatest extent possible. Debates over interpretation of the Fair Housing Act have focused largely on the question of whether showing that a policy or practice has a disproportionate racial impact (regardless ...
... economic and racial desegregation represented the best pos- sibility for notable progress ( see chapter 5 ) . CIVIL RIGHTS POLICIES DURING THE NIXON ERA An understanding of HUD's failure to implement effective desegregation policies ...
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