Whose Detroit?: Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City [Paperback]

Heather Thompson (Author)

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Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Cornell University Press; illustrated edition edition (Jan 15 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0801488842
ISBN-13: 978-0801488849
Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 15.5 x 2 cm
Shipping Weight: 431 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,142,207 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Using as a pivot the spectacular riots that gripped Detroit in July 1967, Thompson (history, Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte) casts the Motor City turned murder capital as a symbol of America's post-1945 urban crisis. She traces Detroit's fragmented civic, labor, and racial politics from the 1930s through the 1980s to argue that more than black-white racial polarization determined the transformation of American inner cities. Thompson argues that Detroit and other northern cities in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s were battlegrounds between contradictory visions of a revolutionary, uplifting Great Society and of a reactionary, repressive, law-and-order society. The clashes were no less divisive and fierce than those of the Civil Rights Movement, which were occurring in the South at that time. On city streets and shop floors and in courtrooms, the struggle for equitable housing, worker dignity, and an end to discrimination and police brutality enlisted a biracial cast of reformers, she argues, while featuring the determination of a militant black middle class. Thompson's engrossing work challenges an array of interpretations about postwar urban America, race relations, labor relations, the triumph of Reagan conservatism, and more. Essential for any collection on the history, politics, or society of post-World War II America. Thomas J. Davis, Arizona State Univ., Tempe
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