Whose Detroit?: Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City (with a New Prologue)

by Heather Ann Thompson

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America's urbanites have engaged in many tumultuous struggles for civil and worker rights since the Second World War. In Whose Detroit?, 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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:080143520X

ISBN13:9780801435201

Release Date:January 2002

Publisher:Cornell University Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:1.35 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.3" x 9.5"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

20th Century African Americans African-American Studies Economics History Labor & Industrial Relations Minority Studies Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences

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