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Whose Detroit? : Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City / Heather Ann Thompson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Edition: With a New PrologueDescription: 1 online resource (304 p.) : 20 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501712814
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.8009774/34 23
LOC classification:
  • F574.D457
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue to the 2017 Printing -- Notes to the Prologue to the 2017 Printing -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Beyond Racial Polarization -- 2. Optimism and Crisis in the New Liberal Metropolis -- 3. Driving Desperation on the Auto Shop Floor -- 4. Citizens, Politicians, and the Escalating War for Detroit’s Civic Future -- 5. Workers, Officials, and the Escalating War for Detroit’s Labor Future -- 6. From Battles on City Streets to Clashes in the Courtroom -- 7. From Fights for Union Office to Wildcats in the Workplace -- 8. Urban Realignment and Labor Retrenchment -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Notes from the Author -- Notes -- Index
Summary: "Thompson's engrossing book is essential for any collection on the history, politics, or society of post–World War II America."― Library JournalIn Whose Detroit?, Heather Ann Thompson focuses in detail on the African American struggles for full equality and equal justice under the law that shaped the Motor City during the 1960s and 1970s. Even after Great Society liberals committed themselves to improving conditions in Detroit, Thompson argues, poverty and police brutality continued to plague both neighborhoods and workplaces. Frustration with entrenched discrimination and the lack of meaningful remedies not only led black residents to erupt in the infamous urban uprising of 1967, but it also sparked myriad grassroots challenges to postwar liberalism in the wake of that rebellion.With deft attention to the historical background and to the dramatic struggles of Detroit's residents, and with a new prologue that argues for the ways in which the War on Crime and mass incarceration also devastated the Motor City over time, Thompson has written a biography of an entire nation at a time of crisis.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue to the 2017 Printing -- Notes to the Prologue to the 2017 Printing -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Beyond Racial Polarization -- 2. Optimism and Crisis in the New Liberal Metropolis -- 3. Driving Desperation on the Auto Shop Floor -- 4. Citizens, Politicians, and the Escalating War for Detroit’s Civic Future -- 5. Workers, Officials, and the Escalating War for Detroit’s Labor Future -- 6. From Battles on City Streets to Clashes in the Courtroom -- 7. From Fights for Union Office to Wildcats in the Workplace -- 8. Urban Realignment and Labor Retrenchment -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Notes from the Author -- Notes -- Index

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"Thompson's engrossing book is essential for any collection on the history, politics, or society of post–World War II America."― Library JournalIn Whose Detroit?, Heather Ann Thompson focuses in detail on the African American struggles for full equality and equal justice under the law that shaped the Motor City during the 1960s and 1970s. Even after Great Society liberals committed themselves to improving conditions in Detroit, Thompson argues, poverty and police brutality continued to plague both neighborhoods and workplaces. Frustration with entrenched discrimination and the lack of meaningful remedies not only led black residents to erupt in the infamous urban uprising of 1967, but it also sparked myriad grassroots challenges to postwar liberalism in the wake of that rebellion.With deft attention to the historical background and to the dramatic struggles of Detroit's residents, and with a new prologue that argues for the ways in which the War on Crime and mass incarceration also devastated the Motor City over time, Thompson has written a biography of an entire nation at a time of crisis.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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