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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... Historical Library, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture were always helpful in clearing up my confusion. During my year at Queens College, Robin Rogers-Dillon, Victoria Pitts, Stephen Steinberg, and Mike Roberts kept ...
... historic Civil Rights Act of 1964 , which prohibited discrimination in employment and education . From 1964 to 1968 , federal bureaucrats began to discover what approaches to desegregation were more or less effective , civil rights ...
... historical narrative may wish to skip the theoretical discussion that follows, and proceed to page 16, “Hurdles to Housing Desegregation Initiatives.”) GovERNMENT AGENCiES AS KEy PoLiTiCAL PLAyERS While studies that explore the ...
... historical institutionalism. State autonomy cannot be pre- sumed, as it varies over time and across agencies.28 Much historical insti- tutional work that focuses on the constraints faced by political actors looks at state capacity. In ...
... historical, as all political actors react to previous governmental efforts that address the same sorts of problems. As Heclo argues, political actors engage in po- litical learning, trying to apply the lessons of past policy successes ...
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