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A People's History of Detroit
About this book
Recent bouts of gentrification and investment in Detroit have led some to call it the greatest turnaround story in American history. Meanwhile, activists point to the city's cuts to public services, water shutoffs, mass foreclosures, and violent police raids. In A People's History of Detroit, Mark Jay and Philip Conklin use a class framework to tell a sweeping story of Detroit from 1913 to the present, embedding Motown's history in a global economic context. Attending to the struggle between corporate elites and radical working-class organizations, Jay and Conklin outline the complex sociopolitical dynamics underlying major events in Detroit's past, from the rise of Fordism and the formation of labor unions, to deindustrialization and the city's recent bankruptcy. They demonstrate that Detroit's history is not a tale of two cities—one of wealth and development and another racked by poverty and racial violence; rather it is the story of a single Detroit that operates according to capitalism's mandates.
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Publisher
Duke University Press BooksYear
2020Print ISBN
9781478008347
9781478007883
eBook ISBN
9781478009351
28
Chapter
1
median
income
of
Detroit
residents
($25,764)
but
on
the
median
income
of
the
metro
Detroit
region
($68,000),
meaning,
according
to
activists,
“all
of
the
newly
developed
affordable
housing
built
in
Detroit
still
isn’t
actually
affordable
to
most
Detroiters.”
45
Gentrification,
then,
represents
much
more
than
cultural
incompetence;
it
is
a
necessary
element
of
urban
political
economy
in
contemporary
capitalist
society.
The
racialized
components
of
real
estate
investment
are
a
symptom
of
structural
processes
that
do
not
always
manifest
in
racial
terms.
As
well
as
calling
into
question
the
utility
of
the
term
gentrification
,
this
suests
that
in
order
to
curb
the
displacement
attending
to
urban
development,
we
must
go
well
beyond
acculturating
newcomers
and
being
friendly
to
our
neighbors,
and
address
the
root
of
the
problem:
the
creative
destruction
wreaked
upon
cities,
and
in
particular
their
most
vulnerable
residents,
by
the
whims
of
highly
mo-
bile
real
estate
capital.
figure
1.1.
A
group
of
Detroiters
sit
on
a
Downtown
sidewalk
in
front
of
a
construc-
tion
site
for
a
new
luxury
hotel
built
by
the
Shinola
leather
company.
A
few
minutes
after
this
photo
was
taken,
this
area
was
cleared
by
private
security
and
Detroit
police.
Photo
©
Philip
Conklin,
2016.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Marx in Detroit
- 1. A Tale of One City, C. 1913–2019
- 2. Fordism and the So-Called Golden Years, C. 1913–1960
- 3. The Conditions of the Great Rebellion, C. 1960–1967
- 4. Revolutionaries and Counterrevolutionaries, C. 1967–1973
- 5. Post-Fordism and Mass Incarceration, C. 1974–2013
- Conclusion. Competing Visions for Detroit’s New Era
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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