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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... racial segregation that I encountered. In the halls of my high school, you could count the black and Latino students on one hand. When I traveled thirty minutes to explore New York City with friends, fifteen minutes to a rival high ...
... racial diversity (admittedly, a vaguely defined concept) to be in their self-interest, a nearly complete reversal over the past forty years. The most egregious forms of discrimi- nation and segregation have diminished considerably. Yet ...
... Racially separate and unequal schools are a direct result of segregated housing patterns . In the late 1960s and the early ... racial and ethnic minorities from obtaining hous- ing wherever they could afford . The federal government - in ...
... racial and economic isolation , effects that continue to accrue today . At the dawn of the Nixon Administration , the time was ripe for federal action to foster residential desegregation . In fact , this opportu- nity to attack ...
... racial and economic exclusion. Ultimately, these efforts came unhinged. The Nixon Administration merits close examination as a pivotal period in explain- ing the divergence of federal civil rights policies in housing from those in other ...
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