The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women's Struggles

The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women's Struggles against Urban Inequality (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities)

In this collective biography, Rhonda Y. Williams takes us behind, and beyond, politically expedient labels to provide an incisive and intimate portrait of poor black women in urban America. Drawing on dozens of interviews, Williams challenges the notion that low-income housing was a resounding failure that doomed three consecutive generations of post-war Americans to entrenched poverty. Instead, she recovers a history of grass-roots activism, of political awakening, and of class mobility, all facilitated by the creation of affordable public housing. The stereotyping of black women, especially mothers, has obscured a complicated and nuanced reality too often warped by the political agendas of both the left and the right, and has prevented an accurate understanding of the successes and failures of government anti-poverty policy.
Country USA
Brand Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer Oxford University Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 21 halftones & line drawings
ReleaseDate 2005-12-08
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780195306514

The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women's Struggles against Urban Inequality (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities)