The Dignity of Resistance: Women Residents' Activism in Chicago Public Housing

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.

Author: Roberta M. Feldman, Susan Stall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 09/01/2006
Pages: 410
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.34w x 0.99d
ISBN: 9780521596862

About the Author
Feldman, Roberta M.: - 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.Stall, Susan: - Susan Stall is Chair of the Sociology Department and Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at Northeastern Illinois University.