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Artists --- Women artists --- Artists, Women --- Women as artists --- Persons --- Hood, Dorothy, --- Houston (Tex.) --- Houston City (Tex.)

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Rent control --- Social movements --- Urban policy --- Real Estate, Housing & Land Use --- Business & Economics --- Santa Monica (Calif.) --- Houston (Tex.) --- Politics and government. --- Houston City (Tex.)

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This text examines how housing market professionals - including housing developers, real estate agents, mortgage lenders, and appraisers - construct twenty-first-century urban housing markets in ways that contribute to or undermine racial segregation. Drawing on extensive ethnographic and interview data collected in Houston, Texas, the book shows that housing market professionals play a key role in connecting people - or refusing to connect people - to housing resources and opportunities.

Discrimination in housing --- History --- Fair housing --- Housing, Discrimination in --- Open housing --- Race discrimination in housing --- Segregation in housing --- Housing --- Houston (Tex.) --- Race relations --- Houston City (Tex.)

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Within about seventy-five miles of downtown Houston, some 1,500 miles of rivers, creeks, lakes, bayous, and bays await discovery. Canoeing and Kayaking Houston Waterways, by longtime paddler Natalie Wiest, is the perfect companion for anyone who wants to experience Houston's well-watered landscape from the seat of a kayak or canoe. Before introducing readers to the quiet, green world that lies within and around the heart of the city, Wiest gives some pointers on water safety (including swimming and boating); on weather, flood stages, and legal access; and on an often unsee

Canoes and canoeing --- Rivers --- Waterways --- Channels (Hydraulic engineering) --- Transportation --- Brooks --- Creeks --- Runs (Rivers) --- Streams --- Bodies of water --- Birch-bark canoes --- Canoe trips --- Canoeing --- Aquatic sports --- Boats and boating --- Houston (Tex.) --- Texas, East --- East Texas --- Houston City (Tex.)

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"Kreneck not only traces the influential life of Houston entrepreneur and civic leader Felix Tijerina as an individual but illustrates how Tijerina reflected many trends in Mexican American development during the decades he lived, years that were crucial for the Hispanic community today. Kreneck outlines a pattern of identity and assimilation that has been traced in bold, broader terms by other scholars, who have called Tijerina's contemporaries the "Mexican American Generation.""--Jacket.

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