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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... In particular, I would like to thank the Eastern Conference All-Stars dissertation group— Ellen Benoit, Nancy Cauthen, Tina Fetner, and Drew Halfmann—for reading endless iterations of dissertation chapters. Other friends from the.
... group of scholars. In particular, Michelle Berger, Tom Burke, Carol Caronna, Kevin Esterling, Dino Falaschetti, Jonah Gel- bach, Kristen Harknett, Ann Keller, Karen Lutfey, and Adam Sheingate provided valuable commentary on my work, and ...
... groups who are concentrated in the central cities , and the middle income and affluent who live in the surrounding and separate communities . This confrontation is divisive . It is explosive . It must be resolved . ” 3 Romney's sense of ...
... groups, and lukewarm support from Congress, to name a few. Yet, when we view housing desegregation in the context of other, rela- tively more successful civil rights policies such as affirmative action in em- ployment and school ...
... groups (Latinos, Asians, Native Americans) as well as other affected classes (women, the disabled), initial policies directed at African Americans served as a template for subsequent expansions; thus, said policies are important to ...
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