Race, neighborhoods, and community power
Subtitle: Buffalo politics, 1934-1997
By: Neil Kraus.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Poverty -- New York (State) -- Buffalo.; African Americans -- Government policy -- New York (State) -- Buffalo.; Buffalo (N.Y.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century.; Buffalo (N.Y.) -- Social policy.
Description: "In this history of several decades of recent Buffalo city politics, Neil Kraus examines the local political causes behind geographic concentrations of poverty. Race, Neighborhoods, and Community Power makes the compelling case that policy adopted at the local level has had a significant impact on the development of low-income, segregated urban neighborhoods.

By examining the policy areas of urban housing, urban renewal, education, fair housing as well as several major development decisions, Kraus offers a detailed, step-by-step investigation of how each policy decision affected the segregation of the city's east side, and thus provides a new perspective on the debate over concentrated urban policy."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-286) and index.
Revision of thesis (Ph. D.--State University of New York at Albany, 1998).