When Tenants Claimed The City

Author : Roberta Gold
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252095987
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Tenants Claimed the City written by Roberta Gold and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In postwar America, not everyone wanted to move out of the city and into the suburbs. For decades before World War II, New York's tenants had organized to secure renters' rights. After the war, tenant activists raised the stakes by challenging the newly-dominant ideal of homeownership in racially segregated suburbs. They insisted that renters as well as owners had rights to stable, well-maintained homes, and they proposed that racially diverse urban communities held a right to remain in place--a right that outweighed owners' rights to raise rents, redevelop properties, or exclude tenants of color. Further, the activists asserted that women could participate fully in the political arenas where these matters were decided. Grounded in archival research and oral history, When Tenants Claimed the City: The Struggle for Citizenship in New York City Housing shows that New York City's tenant movement made a significant claim to citizenship rights that came to accrue, both ideologically and legally, to homeownership in postwar America. Roberta Gold emphasizes the centrality of housing to the racial and class reorganization of the city after the war; the prominent role of women within the tenant movement; and their fostering of a concept of "community rights" grounded in their experience of living together in heterogeneous urban neighborhoods.

Author : Annemarie H. Sammartino
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150171645X
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedomland written by Annemarie H. Sammartino and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Freedomland, Annemarie H. Sammartino tells Co-op City's story from the perspectives of those who built it and of the ordinary people who made their homes in this monument to imperfect liberal ideals of economic and social justice. Located on the grounds of the former Freedomland amusement park on the northeastern edge of the Bronx, Co-op City's 35 towers and 236 townhouses have been home to hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers and is an icon visible to all traveling on the east coast corridor. In 1965, Co-op City was planned as the largest middle-class housing development in the United States. It was intended as a solution to the problem of affordable housing in America's largest city. While Co-op City first appeared to be a huge success story for integrated, middle-class housing, tensions would lead its residents to organize the largest rent strike in American history. In 1975, a coalition of shareholders took on New York State and, against all odds, secured resident control. Much to the dismay of many denizens of the complex, even this achievement did not halt either rising costs or white flight. Nevertheless, after the challenges of the 1970s and 1980s, the cooperative achieved a hard-won stability as the twentieth century came to a close. Freedomland chronicles the tumultuous first quarter century of Co-op City's existence. Sammartino's narrative connects planning, economic, and political history and the history of race in America. The result is a new perspective on twentieth-century New York City.

Author : Ronald Lawson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tenant Movement in New York City, 1904-1984 written by Ronald Lawson and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James MACKNIGT (LL.D.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ulster Tenants' Claim of Right: Or, Land Ownership a State Trust; the Ulster Tenant-Right an Original Grant from the British Crown, and the Necessity of Extending Its General Principle to the Other Provinces of Ireland Demonstrated: In a Letter to Lord John Russell written by James MACKNIGT (LL.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James P. Hubbard
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476674485
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decent, Safe and Sanitary Dwellings written by James P. Hubbard and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1973, President Nixon halted new construction of public housing, claiming that the U.S. government had become "the biggest slumlord in history." Four decades earlier, in the depths of the Great Depression, strong political support for federally-subsidized low-income housing had resulted in the Housing Act of 1937. By the 1950s, growing criticism of the housing constructed by local authorities and prejudice against poor residents--particularly African Americans--fueled opposition to new projects. This book documents the lively and wide-ranging national debate over public housing from the New Deal to Nixon.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of Proceedings written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : New York (N.Y.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1244 pages
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Download or read book The City Record written by New York (N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Karen Juanita Carrillo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African American–Latino Relations in the 21st Century written by Karen Juanita Carrillo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative look at the connections—and conflicts—between Latinos and African Americans in the United States assesses the challenges facing both groups as they strive to achieve the American dream. Latino and African American communities in the United States share neighborhoods, similar family values, and many of the same challenges faced by minorities, yet are often at odds about their distinctive cultures and position in society. This book looks at the social and political history of both groups, pointing out their differences and similarities, and exploring their perceived role in America's social strata. Author Karen Juanita Carrillo delves into the often-controversial issues that have undermined Afro-Latino race relations in this country, including how the war on poverty led to competition and animosity, how the legacy of slavery bears on their relationship, and how prejudices among new immigrants inflame existing tensions. The book features a multitude of views and perspectives on what it means to be American for Latino and African American populations. Its extensive discussion of immigrant groups includes those arriving from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Colombia, Honduras, Ecuador and Peru.

Author : Matthew Vaz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022669044X
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Running the Numbers written by Matthew Vaz and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-04-13 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day in the United States, people test their luck in numerous lotteries, from state-run games to massive programs like Powerball and Mega Millions. Yet few are aware that the origins of today’s lotteries can be found in an African American gambling economy that flourished in urban communities in the mid-twentieth century. In Running the Numbers, Matthew Vaz reveals how the politics of gambling became enmeshed in disputes over racial justice and police legitimacy. As Vaz highlights, early urban gamblers favored low-stakes games built around combinations of winning numbers. When these games became one of the largest economic engines in nonwhite areas like Harlem and Chicago’s south side, police took notice of the illegal business—and took advantage of new opportunities to benefit from graft and other corrupt practices. Eventually, governments found an unusual solution to the problems of illicit gambling and abusive police tactics: coopting the market through legal state-run lotteries, which could offer larger jackpots than any underground game. By tracing this process and the tensions and conflicts that propelled it, Vaz brilliantly calls attention to the fact that, much like education and housing in twentieth-century America, the gambling economy has also been a form of disputed terrain upon which racial power has been expressed, resisted, and reworked.

Author : Mary Ann Hallenborg
Publisher : Mary Ann Hallenborg
ISBN 13 : 0873378210
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York Tenants' Rights written by Mary Ann Hallenborg and published by Mary Ann Hallenborg. This book was released on 2002 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers legal advice for tenants in New York, discusses common rental problems and solutions, and includes instructions for preparing legal forms and letters.