ISBN:
1602568774
,
9781602568778
,
9780195158908
,
0195158903
,
1423720369
,
9781423720362
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xiii, 306 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Transgressing boundaries
Parallel Title:
Print version Politics of public housing
DDC:
305.48896073075271
Keywords:
Poor women Maryland
;
Baltimore
;
Poor women Political activity
;
Maryland
;
Baltimore
;
African American women Maryland
;
Baltimore
;
Welfare recipients Maryland
;
Baltimore
;
Women heads of households Maryland
;
Baltimore
;
Low-income housing Maryland
;
Baltimore
;
Public welfare Maryland
;
Baltimore
;
Poor women Political activity
;
African American women
;
Welfare recipients
;
Women heads of households
;
Low-income housing
;
Public welfare
;
Poor women
;
Welfare recipients
;
Women heads of households
;
Low-income housing
;
Public welfare
;
African American women
;
Poor women Political activity
;
Poor women
;
Electronic books Maryland
;
Baltimore
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies
;
African American women
;
Low-income housing
;
Poor women
;
Poor women ; Political activity
;
Public welfare
;
Welfare recipients
;
Women heads of households
;
Maryland ; Baltimore
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Black women have traditionally represented the canvas on which many debates about poverty and welfare have been drawn. For a quarter century after the publication of the notorious Moynihan report, poor black women were tarred with the same brush: "ghetto moms" or "welfare queens" living off the state, with little ambition or hope of an independent future. At the same time, the history of the civil rights movement has all too often succumbed to an idolatry that stresses the centrality of prominent leaders while overlooking those who fought daily for their survival in an often hostile urban land
Description / Table of Contents:
Creating "a little heaven for poor people": decent housing and respectable communities"A woman can understand": dissidence in 1940s' public housing -- Shifting landscapes in postwar Baltimore -- "When then came the change": the fight against disrepute -- "An awakening giant": the search for poor people's political power -- "Sunlight at early dawn": economic struggles, public housing and welfare rights.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-295) and index. - Description based on print version record
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