{"product_id":"when-tenants-claimed-the-city-roberta-gold-9780252038181","title":"When Tenants Claimed the City: The Struggle for Citizenship in New York City Housing","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn postwar America, not everyone wanted to move out of the city and into the suburbs. For decades before World War II, New York's tenants had organized to secure renters' rights. After the war, tenant activists raised the stakes by challenging the newly-dominant ideal of homeownership in racially segregated suburbs. They insisted that renters as well as owners had rights to stable, well-maintained homes, and they proposed that racially diverse urban communities held a right to remain in place--a right that outweighed owners' rights to raise rents, redevelop properties, or exclude tenants of color. Further, the activists asserted that women could participate fully in the political arenas where these matters were decided. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrounded in archival research and oral history, \u003ci\u003eWhen Tenants Claimed the City: The Struggle for Citizenship in New York City Housing\u003c\/i\u003e shows that New York City's tenant movement made a significant claim to citizenship rights that came to accrue, both ideologically and legally, to homeownership in postwar America. Roberta Gold emphasizes the centrality of housing to the racial and class reorganization of the city after the war; the prominent role of women within the tenant movement; and their fostering of a concept of \"community rights\" grounded in their experience of living together in heterogeneous urban neighborhoods.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Roberta Gold\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0252038185\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252038181\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/03\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.59h x 6.44w x 1.16d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2014 pg. 328","brand":"Roberta Gold","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44652083740927,"sku":"9780252038181","price":57.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5f17a8e8-d816-4b8d-9d0a-87889799acc2.jpg?v=1704214486","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/when-tenants-claimed-the-city-roberta-gold-9780252038181","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}