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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... effective solutions is that federal , state , and local governments had ( and continue to have ) such a large hand in creating and maintaining it . The consequences of residential segregation are numerous and far - reaching , though ...
... effective federal at- tacks on residential segregation were most likely. Nixon is often remem- bered as an individual whose domestic political stances were calculated to gain the support of whites, especially Southern whites, who had ...
... effective if the staff has little power within the agency . By the same token , the presence of many institutional activists may have little effect if they are part of a civil rights office within a larger agency . Agency mission and ...
... effective than affirmative ac- tion approaches, which attempt to alter the consequences of disadvan- tage. Nevertheless, this approach has yielded more demonstrable results than case-by-case, color-blind strategies. While affirmative ...
... effective desegregation policies must account for the political context that the agency faced un- der the Nixon Administration . Scholars in recent years have offered a number of different takes on Nixon's civil rights policies ...
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