The Dignity of Resistance: Women Residents' Activism in Chicago Public Housing (Environment and Behavior) - Softcover

Feldman, Roberta M.; Stall, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521596866 ISBN 13: 9780521596862

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Synopsis

This comprehensive case study chronicles the four decade history of Chicago's Wentworth Gardens public housing residents' grassroots activism. It explores why and how the African-American women residents creatively and effectively engaged in organizing efforts to resist increasing government disinvestment in public housing and the threat of demolition. Through the inspirational voices of the activists, Roberta Feldman and Susan Stall challenge portrayals of public housing residents as passive and alienated victims of despair.

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Book Description

The Dignity of Resistance chronicles the four decade history of Chicago's Wentworth Gardens public housing residents' grassroots activism. This comprehensive case study explores why and how these African-American women creatively and effectively engaged in organizing efforts to resist increasing government disinvestment in public housing and the threat of demolition. Through the inspirational voices of the activists, Feldman and Stall challenge portrayals of public housing residents as passive, alienated, victims of despair. We learn instead how women residents creatively and effectively sustain daily life, create a vital community, and save their home from demolition.

About the Author

Roberta M. Feldman is Professor of Architecture at the School of Architecture and the Co-Director of the City Design Center at the College of Architecture and the Arts, University of Illinois, Chicago.

Susan Stall is Chair of the Sociology Department and Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at Northeastern Illinois University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0521596866
• ISBN 13: 9780521596862
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 410