Managing inequality : Northern racial liberalism in interwar Detroit / Karen R. Miller.

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"In the wake of the Civil War, many white Northern leaders supported race-neutral laws and anti-discrimination statutes. These positions helped amplify the distinctions they drew between their political economic system, which they saw as forward-thinking in its promotion of free market capitalism, a...

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Main Author: Miller, Karen R. (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
African Americans > Civil rights > Michigan > Detroit > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Michigan > Detroit > Social conditions > 20th century.
Liberalism > Michigan > Detroit > History > 20th century.
Equality > Government policy > Michigan > Detroit > History > 20th century.
HISTORY / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations.
Detroit (Mich.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.
Detroit (Mich.) > Politics and government > 20th century.
Detroit (Mich.) > Economic conditions > 20th century.
Physical Description:xi, 331 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • African American Migration and the Emerging Discourse of Northern Racial Liberalism
  • Protecting Urban Peace : Northern Racial Liberalism and the Limits of Racial Equality
  • Between Ossian Sweet and the Great Depression : Tolerance and Northern Racial Liberal Discourse in the Late 1920s
  • "Living Happily at the Taxpayers' Expense" : City Managers, African American "Freeloaders," and White Taxpayers
  • "Let Us Act Funny" : Snow Flake Grigsby and Civil Rights Liberalism in the 1930s
  • Northern Racial Liberalism and Detroit's Labor Movement
  • "Better Housing Makes Better Citizens" : Slum Clearance and Low-Cost Housing.