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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... existing law - even if these innovations are opposed by other political actors — while other , similarly situated agencies find them- selves unable to do so.12 One can better understand HUD's failure in civil rights by directing ...
... existing civil rights offices); the Equal Employment Oppor- tunity Commission (EEOC), as a stand-alone agency, logically would not have had the same ease of access to information and resources. Iron- ically, in the case of the EEOC ...
... existing civil rights policies in other policy areas ( or by other political jurisdictions ) . After passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 , which extended antidiscrimination protections to the area of housing , HUD had two plausible ...
... existing policies . In more specific terms , however , each area featured distinct political dynamics . Housing is typically viewed as an area ruled by local preroga- tives . This is not an entirely accurate view . First , as subsequent ...
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