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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... individuals, within and beyond the boundaries of academia. Edwin Amenta supplied many insights on the trajectory of American social policies and on ways in which to study them. He also provided valuable personal and professional ...
... individual whose domestic political stances were calculated to gain the support of whites, especially Southern whites, who had grown resentful of the outbreaks of black rage in inner cities and of the expanding scope of federal civil ...
... individual agencies are doing, so long as the agencies do nothing newsworthy enough to demand his attention or in- tervention. Other factors contributing to this lack of presidential control include agency ties with interest groups and ...
... individual cases of discrimina- tion. This approach, typically labeled “affirmative action,” has been used extensively in both employment and education. Lending institu- tions and big building firms are clearly large enough to monitor ...
... individual ; ( 3 ) a de - emphasis on discrimi- natory or racist intent and on identifying individual victims of discrimi- nation ; ( 4 ) a de - emphasis or reevaluation of traditional standards of merit ; and ( 5 ) an overarching ...
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Knocking on the Door: The Federal Government's Attempt to Desegregate the ... Christopher Bonastia No preview available - 2008 |