Title In Levittown's shadow : poverty in America's wealthiest postwar suburb / Tim Keogh.

Publication Info.	Chicago, IL ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2023.
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Description	315 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series	Historical studies of urban America
	Historical studies of urban America.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction -- The future Detroit of the East : from residential to industrial suburbia -- The crabgrass wasn't always greener : poverty amidst suburban plenty -- Attics, basements, and sheds : housing the poor during the suburban boom -- Fair without full employment : the limits of equal opportunity -- The suburban war on poverty -- Shouldering their "fair share" : why the suburbs could not resolve the "urban crisis" -- The Long Island miracle : suburbia into the next century -- Conclusion : lessons from Long Island's past.
Summary	"Inverting the conventional history of American suburbanization, Tim Keogh turns the spotlight from wealth and freedom to poverty and inequality. Focusing on the archetypal Long Island communities of the postwar era, Keogh shows that a key driver of suburban development and the segregation it embodied was not housing but employment. Inequality and injustice were baked into suburban development, but housing discrimination was a secondary expression of this, not a primary cause. As a result, equity-minded suburbs that focused on housing policy rather than employment opportunities were doomed to fail. Keogh hopes to motivate more effective approaches to contemporary inequity by changing our understanding of how it took shape historically"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject	Equality -- Economic aspects (OCoLC)fst00914460
Local Subject	Poor people -- New York (State) -- Long Island -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Subject	Economic assistance, Domestic (OCoLC)fst00901671
	Poverty (OCoLC)fst01074093
	Poor -- New York (State) -- Long Island -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
	United States (OCoLC)fst01204155
	New York (State) -- Long Island (OCoLC)fst01241714
	Suburbs (OCoLC)fst01136941
	Economic assistance, Domestic -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Suburbs -- New York (State) -- Long Island -- History -- 20th century.
	Poor -- Social conditions (OCoLC)fst01071151
	Poverty -- New York (State) -- Long Island.
	Discrimination in housing (OCoLC)fst00895081
	Suburbs -- New York (State) -- Long Island -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
	Equality -- Economic aspects -- New York (State) -- Long Island.
Genre/Form	History (OCoLC)fst01411628
Subject	Long Island (N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century.
	Discrimination in housing -- New York (State) -- Long Island -- History -- 20th century.
	Suburbs -- Economic aspects (OCoLC)fst01136942
Chronological Term	1900-1999
ISBN	9780226827735 hardcover
	0226827739 hardcover
	9780226827759 paperback
	0226827755 paperback
	9780226827742 electronic book

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