ISBN:
9780814343043
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (343 pages)
Series Statement:
Painted Turtle
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.6/230977434
Keywords:
Racism-Michigan-Detroit-History
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: A Checkered History -- Detroit's Forgotten History of Slavery -- The Underground Railroad and Early Racial Violence -- Freedom's Railway: Reminiscences of the Brave Old Days of the Famous Underground Line -- Race Relations in Detroit, 1860-1915 -- The Rages of Whiteness: Racism, Segregation, and the Making of Modern Detroit -- The Arsenal of Democracy-for-Some -- Detroit 1943: "A Real Race Riot" -- A Streetcar Named Disaster -- Part II: A Deteriorating Situation -- The Deindustrialization of Detroit -- Joe's Record Shop -- Benefit of the Redoubt -- Defending the Divide: Homeowners' Associations and the Struggle for Integration in Detroit, 1940-1965 -- Liberals and "Get-Tough" Policing in Postwar Detroit -- Part III: A Riot by Any Other Name -- Chronology of Events -- Steel Meets Flint: How to Start a Riot -- In the Center of the Storm -- Rebellion, Revolution, or Riot: The Debate Continues -- The Problem Was the Police -- Murder at the Algiers Motel -- The Storytellers: Getting to the Heart of the Matter -- The Mayor's Shadow -- The Taxi Driver -- Oral History Excerpts -- Part IV: Out of the Ashes -- What the Children Said -- And the Beat Goes On: Continued Confrontation -- First Time I've Ever Seen Justice -- A Call to Action: The Changing Face of Inner-City Activism -- Black Power, Black Rebellion -- It Was a Good Time for Organizing -- In the Uprising's Wake: Reaction in the White Community -- Part V: The More Things Change . . . -- Detroit 1967 and Today: Spatial Racism and Ongoing Cycles of Oppression -- Hindsight: The Shift in Media Framing -- It Can Happen Here: Model City Once Again? -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
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