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SEGREGATION IN POST-CIVIL RIGHTS AMERICADu Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 11
HUD Announces Final Rule on Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing
Book Reviews NEW DEAL RUINS:RACE,ECONOMIC JUSTICE, AND PUBLIC HOUSING POLICY, by Edward G. Goetz. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013. ISBN: 978-0-8014-7828-4; 239 pp. $74 Cloth, $24 Paper Reviewed by Jeffrey M. Timberlake University of Cincinnati Season 3 of the HBO series The Wire opens on the characters Bodie and Poot trudging through the detritus of a West Baltimore alley toward the soon-to-be-razed Franklin Ter- race Towers. “I don’t know man, I mean, I’m kinda sad. Them Towers be home to me,” laments Poot. Bodie, the show’s inveterate pragmatist, replies, “You gonna cry over a housing project now? Man, they shoulda blew the motherfuckers up a long time ago, you ask me. . . . Y’all talkin’ ‘bout steel and concrete, man. Steel and fuckin’ concrete.” Poot persists, saying “Naw man, I’m talkin’ ‘bout people—memories and shit.” But Bodie is unswayed. “That ain’t the same. Look, they gonna tear this building down. They gonna build some new shit. But people? They don’t give a fuck about people.” Therein lay the dilemma of public housing in America in the early twenty-first cen- tury: To many scholars, policy makers, and lay observers, public housing (particularly the high-rise family type) was irreparably
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