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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... politicians have pondered the impact of the Fair Housing Act of 1968 (the year 2003 marked its thirty-fifth ... political actions, court decisions, legislation, and bureaucratic implementation that constitute the “civil rights ...
... political history , exploring how HUD came surprisingly close to imple- menting unpopular antidiscrimination policies and why President Nixon derailed the agency's civil rights drive . It is perhaps obvious now that وو HUD was, in the ...
... political attack, and President Nixon seized upon this vulnerability. At first blush, the era of Richard Nixon's presidency (1969–74) may seem an unlikely period to identify as one in which effective federal at- tacks on residential ...
... political solu- tions to the problem of residential segregation. It also may have been the last one, at least for the foreseeable future. In accord with the dominant political focus of the time, I pay closest attention to issues of ...
... political outcomes — the impact of policies on citizens — unstudied . " 9 Skocpol argues that state bureaucracies are potentially capable of au- tonomous action , meaning that they may devise strategies of action inde- pendently of ...
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