Author: Albert Nelson MarquisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detroit (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
The Book of Detroiters;.
Author: Albert Nelson MarquisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detroit (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Heart Soul Detroit
Author: Jenny RisherPublisher: Momentum Books LLC
ISBN: 9781938018008
Category : Athletes
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Detroit Hustle
Author: Amy HaimerlPublisher: Running Press Adult
ISBN: 076245735X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Journalist Amy Haimerl and her husband had been priced out of their Brooklyn neighborhood. Seeing this as a great opportunity to start over again, they decide to cash in their savings and buy an abandoned house for 35,000 in Detroit, the largest city in the United States to declare bankruptcy. As she and her husband restore the 1914 Georgian Revival, a stately brick house with no plumbing, no heat, and no electricity, Amy finds a community of Detroiters who, like herself, aren't afraid of a little hard work or things that are a little rough around the edges. Filled with amusing and touching anecdotes about navigating a real-estate market that is rife with scams, finding a contractor who is a lover of C.S. Lewis and willing to quote him liberally, and neighbors who either get teary-eyed at the sight of newcomers or urge Amy and her husband to get out while they can, Amy writes evocatively about the charms and challenges of finding her footing in a city whose future is in question. Detroit Hustle is a memoir that is both a meditation on what it takes to make a house a home, and a love letter to a much-derided city.
Reimagining Detroit
Author: John GallagherPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814334690
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Suggests ways for Detroit to become a smaller but better city in the twenty first century and proposes productive uses for the city's vacant spaces.
Book of Detroiters
Author: Marquis Albert NelsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780243803781
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Mapping Detroit
Author: June Manning ThomasPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 081434027X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Containing some of the leading voices on Detroit's history and future, Mapping Detroit will be informative reading for anyone interested in urban studies, geography, and recent American history.
We Almost Lost Detroit
Author: John G. FullerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Whose Detroit?
Author: Heather Ann ThompsonPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501702017
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
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.
Arab Detroit
Author: Nabeel AbrahamPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814328125
Category : Arab Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
In this volume, Nabeel Abraham and Andrew Shryock bring together the work of twenty-five contributors to create a richly detailed portrait of Arab Detroit.
Detroit, I Do Mind Dying
Author: Dan GeorgakasPublisher: South End Press
ISBN: 9780896085718
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This new South End Press edition makes available the full text of this out-of-print classic--along with a new foreword by Manning Marable, interviews with participants in DRUM, and reflections on political developments over the past threee decades by Georgakas and Surkin.