Robert Clifton Weaver and the American city [[electronic resource] ] : the life and times of an urban reformer / / Wendell E. Pritchett

• Autore: Pritchett Wendell E
• Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (462 p.)
• Disciplina: 352.2/93092; B
• Soggetto topico: Cabinet officers - United States; African Americans; Urban policy - United States - History - 20th century; African Americans - Government policy - History - 20th century; Cabinet officers - New York (State); African American college presidents
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-417) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Preparing the Talented Tenth. The Weaver Family and the Black Elite -- 2. Fighting for a Better Deal -- 3. A Liberal Experiment. Race and Housing in the New Deal -- 4. Creating a New Order. Black Politics in the New Deal Era -- 5. World War II and Black Labor -- 6. Chicago and the Science of Race Relations -- 7. Searching for a Place to Call Home -- 8. New York City and the Institutions of Liberal Reform -- 9. The First Cabinet Job -- 10. The Path to Power -- 11. The Kennedy Years. A Reluctant New Frontier -- 12. Fighting for Civil Rights from the Inside -- 13. The Great Society and the City -- 14. HUD, Robert Weaver, and the Ambiguities of Race -- 15. Power and Its Limitations -- 16. The Great Society, High and Low -- 17. An Elder Statesman in a Period of Turmoil -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations Used in Notes -- Notes -- Figure Credits -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: From his role as Franklin Roosevelt's "negro advisor" to his appointment under Lyndon Johnson as the first secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Robert Clifton Weaver was one of the most influential domestic policy makers and civil rights advocates of the twentieth century. This volume, the first biography of the first African American to hold a cabinet position in the federal government, rescues from obscurity the story of a man whose legacy continues to affect American race relations and the cities in which they largely play out. Tracing Weaver's career through the creation, expansion, and contraction of New Deal liberalism, Wendell E. Pritchett illuminates his instrumental role in the birth of almost every urban initiative of the period, from public housing and urban renewal to affirmative action and rent control. Beyond these policy achievements, Weaver also founded racial liberalism, a new approach to race relations that propelled him through a series of high-level positions in public and private agencies working to promote racial cooperation in American cities. But Pritchett shows that despite Weaver's efforts to make race irrelevant, white and black Americans continued to call on him to mediate between the races-a position that grew increasingly untenable as Weaver remained caught between the white power structure to which he pledged his allegiance and the African Americans whose lives he devoted his career to improving.
• Titolo autorizzato: Robert Clifton Weaver and the American city
• ISBN: 1-282-53791-1; 9786612537912; 0-226-68450-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910456836403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II