Whose Detroit? : politics, labor, and race in a modern American city / Heather Ann Thompson ; with a new prologue.

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"In Whose Detroit?, Heather Ann Thompson focuses in detail on the African American struggles for full equality and for 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, Thompso...

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Main Author: Thompson, Heather Ann, 1963- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Detroit (Mich.) > Politics and government > 20th century.
Detroit (Mich.) > Race relations.
Detroit (Mich.) > Economic conditions > 20th century.
African Americans > Michigan > Detroit > Social conditions > 20th century.
African Americans > Michigan > Detroit > Economic conditions > 20th century.
Urban poor > Michigan > Detroit > History > 20th century.
Labor movement > Michigan > Detroit > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Migrations > History > 20th century.
Rural-urban migration > United States > History > 20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
African Americans > Economic conditions.
African Americans > Migrations.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Economic history.
Labor movement.
Politics and government.
Race relations.
Rural-urban migration.
Urban poor.
Michigan > Detroit.
United States.
1900-1999
History.
Electronic books.
Genre:
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (JSTOR)
Physical Description:1 online resource
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction : reassessing the fate of postwar cities, politics, and labor
  • Beyond racial polarization : political complexity in the city and labor movement of the 1950s
  • Optimism and crisis in the new liberal metropolis
  • Driving desperation on the auto shop floor
  • Citizens, politicians, and the escalating war for Detroit's civic future
  • Workers, officials, and the escalating war for Detroit's labor future
  • From battles on city streets to clashes in the courtroom
  • From fights for union office to wildcats in the workplace
  • Urban realignment and labor retrenchment : an end to Detroit's war at home
  • Conclusion : civic transformation and labor movement decline in postwar urban America.