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Primary Source: “Strange Fruit” Recorded by Billie Holiday (1939) Discussion Questions What was the major social impact of the Great Migration? Identify the major push and full factors of movement? How does Strange Fruit use imagery to explore the South as a place of terror? Want more of “The Show Must Go On” series? Click below to… MORE
Since their inception, the mutual programs of the 1940s were created as secondary to individual private homeownership, which has persisted as the dominant model in the decades since. While mutual or cooperative housing has taken various forms, the term typically denotes a buyer purchasing a share in a not-for-profit mutual association where the association (made up of the residents) owns and controls the houses and land.
This is a syllabus that suggests readings for a course exploring histories of cultural resistance and activism in the United States from the colonial period to the present.
This article examines the values and policies that have shaped these stereotypes and critiques of public housing in the United States since its beginning in the 1930s. American public housing never fully succeeding is a matter of how we chose to implement it, not a problem inherent to the concept itself.