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Whose Detroit? - Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City (Hardcover, With a New Prologue)
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Whose Detroit? - Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City (Hardcover, With a New Prologue)
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America's urbanites have engaged in many tumultuous struggles for
civil and worker rights since the Second World War. Heather Ann
Thompson focuses in detail on the struggles of Motor City residents
during the 1960s and early 1970s and finds that conflict continued
to plague the inner city and its workplaces even after Great
Society liberals committed themselves to improving conditions.
Using the contested urban center of Detroit as a model, Thompson
assesses the role of such upheaval in shaping the future of
America's cities. She argues that the glaring persistence of
injustice and inequality led directly to explosions of unrest in
this period. Thompson finds that unrest as dramatic as that
witnessed during Detroit's infamous riot of 1967 by no means doomed
the inner city, nor in any way sealed its fate. The politics of
liberalism continued to serve as a catalyst for both polarization
and radical new possibilities and Detroit remained a contested, and
thus politically vibrant, urban center. Thompson's account of the
post-World War II fate of Detroit casts new light on contemporary
urban issues, including white flight, police brutality, civic and
shop floor rebellion, labor decline, and the dramatic reshaping of
the American political order. Throughout, the author tells the
stories of real events and individuals, including James Johnson,
Jr., who, after years of suffering racial discrimination in
Detroit's auto industry, went on trial in 1971 for the shooting
deaths of two foremen and another worker at a Chrysler plant. Whose
Detroit? brings the labor movement into the context of the
literature of Sixties radicalism and integrates the history of the
1960s into the broader political history of the postwar period.
Urban, labor, political, and African-American history are blended
into Thompson's comprehensive portrayal of Detroit's reaction to
pressures felt throughout the nation. With deft attention to the
historical background and preoccupations of Detroit's residents,
Thompson has written a biography of an entire city at a time of
crisis.
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