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Author Gold, Roberta
Title When tenants claimed the city : the struggle for citizenship in New York housing / Roberta Gold
Imprint Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2014]
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 Ethnology Library  HD7288.72.U52 N473 2014    AVAILABLE    30520020789443
Descript xi, 330 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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Note Includes bibliographical references and index
A time of struggle : holding the line in the 1940s -- The right to lease and occupy a home : equality and public provision in housing development -- So much life : retrenchment in the Cold War -- Out of these ghettos, people who would fight : claiming power in the sixties -- A lot of investment, a lot of roots : defending urban community -- Territorio libre : upheaval in the Vietnam War era -- To plan our own community : government, grassroots, and local development -- A piece of heaven in hell : struggles in the backlash years
Subject Minorities -- Housing -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
Housing -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
Minorities -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions
Landlord and tenant -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
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