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Subject(s)

• Poor women—Maryland—Baltimore [Browse]
• Poor women—Political activity—Maryland—Baltimore [Browse]
• African American women—Maryland—Baltimore [Browse]
• Welfare recipients—Maryland—Baltimore [Browse]
• Women heads of households—Maryland—Baltimore [Browse]
• Low-income housing—Maryland—Baltimore [Browse]
• Public welfare—Maryland—Baltimore [Browse]

Series

• Transgressing boundaries. [More in this series]
• Oxford scholarship online. [More in this series]

Summary note

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

Notes

Previously issued in print: 2004.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-295) and index.

Source of description

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

Language note

English

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.

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ISBN

• 0-19-771543-5
• 0-19-988276-2
• 1-280-50289-4
• 1-4237-2036-9
• 0-19-803603-5
• 1-60256-877-4

OCLC

• 559933295
• 935262067
• 1406783867

Doi

• 10.1093/oso/9780195158908.001.0001

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