Alexander Polikoff, Elizabeth Lassar

A Brief History of the Subordination of African Americans in the U.S. (eBook, ePUB)

Of Handcuffs and Bootstraps

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Bootstraps tells the history of racial subordination in the U.S., explaining how white racism has caused today's black-white inequality. Comprehensive but brief, it is written for the general reader but has extensive endnotes that will make it useful to scholars and students as well.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 126
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000035001
• Artikelnr.: 58645666

Autorenporträt

Alexander Polikoff is Co-Director, Public Housing and Senior Staff Counsel for BPI, and has served as lead counsel in the landmark Gautreaux public housing litigation for more than 40 years. He is author of Housing the Poor: The Case for Heroism (1977), Waiting for Gautreaux: A Story of Segregation, Housing, and the Black Ghetto (2006), and The Path Still Open: A Greater Chance for Peace Than Ever Before (2009).

Elizabeth Lassar, J.D. (Northwestern University School of Law), serves as a policy analyst for BPI, a Chicago law and policy center, with a focus on projects and policies that expand meaningful housing choice for low-income families and people of color.