HOPE VI: A Racial Project for a Colorblind Society

Being a low-income person of color trying to survive in a society that subscribes to a colorblind ideology can be more than difficult, it can be impossible. This thesis seeks to examine the racial implications of the racial project of HOPE VI. To demonstrate that impact, I perform a Critical Discourse Analysis on the "The Final Report of the National Commission on Severely Distressed Public Housing: A Report to the Congress and the Secretary of housing and Urban Development" and the United States Housing Act of 1937 as it was amended by the "Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998." I plan to demonstrate how removing race and racism from the national conversation only aids in furthering racial discrimination and inequality.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Sociology

Year

2009

Author dc:creator

• Patton, Erin

Contributors dc:contributor

• Luft, Rachel E.
• Jenkins, Pamela J.
• Laska, Shirley

• race
• neoliberalism
• colorblindness
• HOPE VI
• racial formation
• racial projects

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1002

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.uno.edu:td-1983