ISBN:
9780815331148
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (256 p)
Series Statement:
Studies in African American History and Culture
Parallel Title:
Print version Race, Class, and the Struggle for Neighborhood in Washington, DC
DDC:
305.8960730753
Keywords:
Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Charts; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 African Americans and Urban Neighborhood Communities; Background and Overview; Empowerment of Low-Income Residents; Retrospective Overview; Notes; Chapter 2 Racial Segregation and Rise of Sun-Hope Neighborhood Community; The Community and Sunrise-Park Dwellings Civic Association; Park Dwellings Housing Project Residents; Sunrise Apartments; Hope Mansions; The Fall of Sun-Park-Hope Civic Association; Sun-Hope Community During the Study; Summary; Notes
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 3 Social Class Segregation and Fall of the Sun-Hope CommunityGhettoization of Sun-Hope Neighborhood Community; Neighborhood Disorganization (1970-1990); Summary; Notes; Chapter 4 The Making of an Open-Air Drug Market; Inner-City Poverty, the Drug Trade and Gangs; Youth as "Little Soldiers"; Teen Mothers as Accessories to the Drug Trade; The Outsiders: The Jamaican Posses; Consequences of the Drug Market; The Influence of the Drug Pushers on Pupils; Tenants' Reaction to the Drug Trade; Summary; Notes; Chapter 5 Policing a Neighborhood-Community Open-Air Drug Market, 1987-1988
Description / Table of Contents:
The Mayor's "Operation Clean Sweep"The Police Blockades; Criticism of "Operation Clean Sweep"; Exhausting the Law Enforcement Agencies; Calling on The National Guard; Summary; Notes; Chapter 6 The Fruit of Islam (FOI); The FOI's Mission and Accomplishments in Sun-Hope; The Making of the FOI-"Dope Busters"; Why the FOI Succeeded Where the Police Failed; The Conflict: The NOI and the Police in Sun-Hope; The War of Words: The NOI and Its Critics; The Police and the FOI Truce; Summary; Notes; Chapter 7 Grassroots Restructuring and Tenant Empowerment
Description / Table of Contents:
Cooperative Housing Endeavors at Sunrise ApartmentsCooperative Housing Endeavors at Hope Mansions; Reforming Hope Mansions Tenant Council; Making Things Work in Hope Mansions; Landlord-Tenant Negotiations; "[Hope Mansions] Regained"; The State of the Hope Mansions Cooperative (HMC); HOPE II and Schism among The Cooperative Board Members; Fall Out with the PA; The Tenant Cooperative without Tenants' Cooperation; "Delivering the Goods"; Summary; Notes; Chapter 8 Empowerment through the Livelihood Job Training Program (LJTP); Marketing the LJTP; Credit and Financial Counseling
Description / Table of Contents:
No Quick SolutionsPutting People to Work; Jobs Training and Education Hurdles; Community-Individual Empowerment through the LJTP; (Overcoming) External Barriers to Helping Those in Need; The Impact of the LJTP; Summary; Notes; Chapter 9 Conclusion; Findings; The Dilemma of Race, Class and Neighborhood Isolation in a Market Society; Neighborhood Organization; Police-Community Relations; Empowerment and Cooperative Homeownership; Economic Empowerment: A Jobs-Training Catch-22; Sun-Hope in a Market Society: Past and Future; Notes; References; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
