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Behind ghetto walls : black families in a federal slum /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rainwater, Lee (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, (U.S.A.) : AldineTransaction, a division of Transaction Publishers, [2006]
Subjects:
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.
Saint Louis (Mo.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
African Americans > Social conditions.
African Americans > Social life and customs.
Inner cities.
Poor.
Public housing.
Social conditions
Missouri > Saint Louis.
Slum.
Armut.
Familie.
Soziale Situation.
Saint Louis <Mo.>
Schwarze.
1900 - 1999
History.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • The Pruitt-Igoe Community
  • Thomas Coolidge
  • The potentialities of people
  • The Madison family
  • Daily life in Pruitt-Igoe
  • The Patterson family
  • Marital roles and marital disruption
  • Clara Johnson and her family
  • Parents and their children
  • Alice Walker becomes a woman
  • The peer group and adolescent socialization
  • The salad days of John Martin
  • Negro lower-class identity and culture
  • Towards equality.