Detroit : race riots, racial conflicts, and efforts to bridge the racial divide / Joe T. Darden and Richard W. Thomas.
Episodes of racial conflict in Detroit form just one facet of the city's storied and legendary history, and they have sometimes overshadowed the less widely known but equally important occurrence of interracial cooperation in seeking solutions to the city's problems. The conflicts also present many...
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| Language: | English |
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East Lansing :
Michigan State University Press,
[2013], ©2013.
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MSU Stanley C. and Selma D. Hollander Faculty Book Collection.
MSU: Copy 3 inscribed by the author. |
| Physical Description: | xvi, 346 pages 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, tables, maps ; 26 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Historical causes and consequences of the 1967 civil disorder: white racism, black rebellion, and changing race relations in the post-civil disorder era
- Conflict between the Black community and white police: before and after the 1967 civil disorder
- Racial conflict over school desegregation
- Racial conflict over employment discrimination
- The emergence of black political power after 1967: impact of the civil disorders on race relations in Metropolitan Detroit
- City and suburban conflict over residential sharing of neighborhoods
- The declining auto industry and anti-Asian racism: the murder of Vincent Chin
- African American and Middle Eastern American relations after 1967
- Old minority and new minority: Black-Latino relations in a predominantly black city
- Economic restructuring, black deprivation, and the problem of drugs and crime
- Measuring the racial divides in Metropolitan Detroit
- Interracial cooperation and bridge building in the post-riot era
- Alternative futures for residents of Detroit.