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Storming Caesars Palace: how Black mothers fought their own war on poverty
Annelise Orleck-
Frontmatter
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INTRODUCTION (page 1)
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CHAPTER 1 FROM THE COTTON FIELDS TO THE DESERT SANDS: LIVING AND LEAVING THE DELTA LIFE (page 7)
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CHAPTER 2 "THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER OF THE WEST": JIM CROW IN SIN CITY (page 37)
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CHAPTER 3 "BAD LUCK AND LOUSY PEOPLE": BLACK SINGLE MOTHERS AND THE WAR ON POVERTY (page 69)
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CHAPTER 4 "IF IT WASN'T FOR YOU, I'D HAVE SHOES FOR MY CHILDREN": WELFARE RIGHTS COME TO LAS VEGAS (page 98)
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CHAPTER 5 STORMING CAESARS PALACE: POVERTY AND POWER IN LAS VEGAS (page 131)
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CHAPTER 6 DRAGGING NEVADA KICKING AND SCREAMING INTO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (page 168)
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CHAPTER 7 "WE CAN DO IT AND DO IT BETTER": REVITALIZING A COMMUNITY FROM THE BOTTOM UP (page 208)
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CHAPTER 8 CAN WELFARE MOTHERS DO COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT?: THE TRIUMPHS AND TRIALS OF OPERATION LIFE (page 245)
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CHAPTER 9 MAYBE WE WERE FIGHTING HISTORY: THE LEGACY OF OPERATION LIFE (page 279)
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (page 311)
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NOTES (page 316)
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INDEX (page 353)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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WRB | 23.3 (May-June 2006): 13-14 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/4024571 |
JAH | 93.1 (June 2006): 297-298 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/4486215 |
JAEH | 25.4 (Summer 2006): 203-205 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/27501769 |
AHR | 111.5 (Dec. 2006): 1554-1555 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/ahr.111.5.1554 |
SIG | 32.2 (Winter 2007): 545-549 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/508230 |
AmQ | 59.1 (Mar. 2007): 219-231 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/40068434 |
HTE | 39.4 (Aug. 2006): 547-548 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/30037087 |
AAR | 40.1 (Spring 2006): 180-182 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/40027041 |
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Published: c2005
Publisher: Beacon Press
- 9780807050323 (hardcover)
- 9780807050316 (paper)
- 9780807097212 (ebook)