Housing Segregation in Suburban America Since 1960: Presidential and Judicial Politics

ISBN-13: 9780521548274 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 320 str.

Charles M. Lamb

Opis

This book examines national fair housing policy from 1960 through 2000 in the context of the American presidency and the country's segregated suburban housing market. Arguing that a principal reason for suburban housing segregation lies in Richard Nixon's 1971 fair housing policy, it traces Nixon's housing legacy through each presidential administration from Gerald Ford to Bill Clinton and as detected in the decisions of Nixon's Federal Court appointees.

Recenzje

"Lamb brings to his study a thorough understanding of fair housing issues, which includes work with the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights in the mid-1970s, an impressive amount of primary research in presidential papers and congressional sources, and a thorough mastery of the secondary fair housing literature." -Timothy J. Crimmins, Georgia State University, H-NET

Spis treści

1. Separate worlds, separate lives; 2. Lyndon Johnson and the Fair Housing Act; 3. George Romney's blueprint for suburban integration; 4. Richard Nixon, centralization, and the policymaking process; 5. Suburban segregation from Gerald Ford to Bill Clinton; 6. The Federal courts and suburban segregation; 7. Conclusions.