| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 234 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Originally published: 2006. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-225) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface; List of Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Government Agencies and Commissions; CHAPTER ONE: Residential Segregation: The Forgotten Civil Rights Issue; CHAPTER TWO: The Divergence of Civil Rights Policies in Housing, Education, and Employment; CHAPTER THREE: The Federal Government and Residential Segregation, 1866-1968; CHAPTER FOUR: Conviction and Controversy: HUD Formulates Its Fair Housing Policies; CHAPTER FIVE: Indirect Attack: A Housing Freeze Kills Civil Rights Efforts; CHAPTER SIX: The Recent Past, Present, and Future of Residential Desegregation. |
| Summary |
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 fun. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Discrimination in housing -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Discrimination in housing. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Discrimination in housing -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Discrimination in housing -- Government policy. |
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Housing policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Housing policy. |
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Affirmative action programs -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Affirmative action programs -- Government policy. |
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Affirmative action programs. |
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Suburbs -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Suburbs. |
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1969-1974.
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
1969-1974 |
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1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Title |
Federal government's attempt to desegregate the suburbs |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Bonastia, Christopher, 1967- Knocking on the door. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2008 9780691136196 069113619X (OCoLC)181142114 |
| ISBN |
9781400827251 (electronic book) |
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1400827256 (electronic book) |
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1282086790 |
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9781282086791 |
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9780691136196 (paperback) |
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069113619X (paperback) |
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