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Author Novak, Michael

Title Behind Ghetto Walls : Black Families in a Federal Slum
Published Somerset : Taylor and Francis, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (593 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Dedication; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction: Houses Divided; 1 The Pruitt-Igoe Community; 2 Thomas Coolidge; 3 The Potentialities of People; 4 The Madison Family; 5 Daily Life in Pruitt-Igoe; 6 The Patterson Family; 7 Marital Roles and Marital Disruption; 8 Clara Johnson and Her Family; 9 Parents and Their Children; 10 Alice Walker Becomes a Woman; 11 The Peer Group and Adolescent Socialization; 12 The Salad Days of John Martin; 13 Negro Lower-Class Identity and Culture; 14 Towards Equality; Bibliography; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 547-566) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1964-1975.
African Americans -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
African American families.
African Americans -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- Social conditions -- 20th century
African Americans -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
African American families -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- History -- 20th century
Poor -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- History -- 20th century
Inner cities -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- History -- 20th century
Public housing -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- History -- 20th century
African American families
African Americans -- Social conditions
African Americans -- Social life and customs
Inner cities
Poor
Public housing
Social conditions
Slum
Armut
Familie
Soziale Situation
SUBJECT Saint Louis (Mo.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Subject Missouri -- Saint Louis
Saint Louis, Mo.
Schwärze
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781351314268
1351314262