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Negrocity: An Interview With Greg Tate, Camille Goodison Jul 2012

Negrocity: An Interview With Greg Tate, Camille Goodison

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Advancing The Human Right To Housing In Post-Katrina New Orleans: Discursive Opportunity Structures In Housing And Community Development, Leigh Graham Jan 2012

Advancing The Human Right To Housing In Post-Katrina New Orleans: Discursive Opportunity Structures In Housing And Community Development, Leigh Graham

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In post-Katrina New Orleans, housing and community development (HCD) advocates clashed over the future of public housing. This case study examines the evolution of and limits to a human right to housing frame introduced by one nongovernmental organization (NGO). Ferree’s concept of the discursive opportunity structure and Bourdieu’s social field ground this NGO’s failure to advance a radical economic human rights frame, given its choice of a political inside strategy that opened up for HCD NGOs after Hurricane Katrina. Strategic and ideological differences within the field limited the efficacy of this rights-based frame, which was seen as politically radical and …


Jackson Teaches African-American Life With Literature, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2012

Jackson Teaches African-American Life With Literature, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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Harris Studies African-American Moments, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2012

Harris Studies African-American Moments, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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