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The Fixers: Devolution, Development, and Civil Society in Newark, 1960-1990 (Historical Studies of Urban America)
Julia Rabig
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Description for The Fixers: Devolution, Development, and Civil Society in Newark, 1960-1990 (Historical Studies of Urban America)
Hardcover. Series: Historical Studies of Urban America. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEJ; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 635.
Stories of Newark's postwar decline are easy to find. But in The Fixers, Julia Rabig supplements these tales of misery with the story of the many imaginative challenges to the city's decline mounted by Newark's residents and suburban neighbors. In these pages, we meet the black nationalists whose dynamic organizing elected African American candidates in unprecedented numbers. There are tenants who mounted a historic rent strike to transform public housing and renegade white Catholic priests who joined black laywomen to pioneer the construction of low-income housing and influence housing policy. These are just a few of the fixers ... Read more
Stories of Newark's postwar decline are easy to find. But in The Fixers, Julia Rabig supplements these tales of misery with the story of the many imaginative challenges to the city's decline mounted by Newark's residents and suburban neighbors. In these pages, we meet the black nationalists whose dynamic organizing elected African American candidates in unprecedented numbers. There are tenants who mounted a historic rent strike to transform public housing and renegade white Catholic priests who joined black laywomen to pioneer the construction of low-income housing and influence housing policy. These are just a few of the fixers ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Historical Studies of Urban America
Condition
New
Weight
635 g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226388311
SKU
V9780226388311
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About Julia Rabig
Julia Rabig is a lecturer of history at Dartmouth College. She is coeditor of The Business of Black Power: Community Development, Capitalism, and Corporate Responsibility in Post-War America.
Reviews for The Fixers: Devolution, Development, and Civil Society in Newark, 1960-1990 (Historical Studies of Urban America)
Rabig's beautifully written history of Newark in the 1960s and '70s, offers critical new insights into the ways that the War on Poverty worked on the ground and the complex connections between African-American community activists, politicians, labor unions, corporate elites, and the 'fixers' who built bridges between them. This important book brilliantly deconstructs the myth of the urban crisis in ... Read more