American Project : : The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto / / Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh.
High-rise public housing developments were signature features of the post-World War II city. A hopeful experiment in providing temporary, inexpensive housing for all Americans, the "projects" soon became synonymous with the black urban poor, with isolation and overcrowding, with drugs, gan...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022] ©2000 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (360 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. A Place to Call Home
- 2. Doing the Hustle
- 3. "What's It Like to Be in Hell?"
- 4. Tenants Face Off with the Gang
- 5. Street-Gang Diplomacy
- 6. The Beginning of the End of a Modern Ghetto
- Author's Note
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index