TY - BOOK AU - Thompson,Heather Ann TI - Whose Detroit?: Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City SN - 9781501712814 AV - F574.D457 U1 - 305.8009774/34 23 PY - 2017///] CY - Ithaca, NY PB - Cornell University Press KW - African Americans KW - Migrations KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Michigan KW - Detroit KW - Economic conditions KW - Social conditions KW - Labor movement KW - Poor KW - Rural-urban migration KW - United States KW - Urban poor KW - Labor History KW - U.S. History KW - Urban Studies KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban KW - bisacsh KW - America's post-1945 urban crisis KW - Discrimination KW - ascendence of the black power movement KW - auto industry in detroit KW - black communities KW - black history in the united states KW - black history of michigan KW - blood in the water KW - books about racial policy in detroit KW - deaths in auto plants KW - detroit labor movement KW - detroit politics and government KW - detroit politics KW - detroit urban poor KW - detroit's 1967 rebellion KW - discrimination in detroit KW - dodge revolutionary union movement KW - economic conditions in the united states KW - effects of the great society programs KW - great society programs KW - history of detroit KW - history of housing in detroit KW - history of labor and the workforce KW - history of police brutality KW - history of strikes in detroits KW - history of the detroit left KW - integration detroit KW - james johnson jr KW - johnson murders of chrysler employees KW - kerner commission KW - labor movement in the auto industry KW - labor movement of the 1950s KW - labor relations KW - late-sixties liberalism collapse KW - league of revolutionary black workers KW - life in postwar american KW - michigan civil rights commission KW - michigan history KW - michigan studies KW - modern race relations KW - modern united states history KW - new liberal metropolis KW - police brutality in detroit KW - pulitzer prize winner KW - race relations in detroit KW - race relations KW - revolutionary union movements KW - rural urban migration KW - strikes detroit KW - united automobile workers KW - united states history KW - urban history detroit KW - urban political development KW - war on crime in detroit KW - workplace organizations N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - "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 UR - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501712814 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501712814 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501712814/original ER -