Monmouth County (N.J.)

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of theses written by students enrolled in the Monmouth University graduate History program. The holdings are bound print documents that were submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the Master of Arts degree. During the fall 2022 semester (in instances where the requisite waivers were received from consenting student authors), the Monmouth University Library,...

Introduction [excerpt] The current research proposes to investigate what southern Monmouth County residents think about low-income housing and the media's influences on those attitudes. There, affluent, predominantly white communities opposed Mount Laurel housing throughout the last quarter of the 20th century and into the first half of the 21st. Although local media regularly covered Mount Laurel housing issues, they failed to investigate Mount Laurel opposition as racial discrimination; instead, they offered...