Detroit
eBook - ePub

Detroit

City of Race and Class Violence, Revised Edition

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Detroit

City of Race and Class Violence, Revised Edition

About this book

This revised edition charts Detroit's bitter history of race and class violence, and its particular effect on the city today.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Preface to Great Lakes Books Edition
  8. Preface
  9. 1. The Legacy of the KKK
  10. 2. The Twenties: Industrial Tyranny and Plantation Politics
  11. 3. The Depression and the Growth of Radicalism
  12. 4. CIO Sitdowns: The Birth of Industrial Unionism
  13. 5. Labor’s Triumph: The Fall of Ford
  14. 6. Unionism—A New Foothold for Negroes
  15. 7. Wartime Detroit: Racial Tension Explodes
  16. 8. McCarthyism and Vigilante Democracy, Detroit Style
  17. 9. Postwar Reconstruction in Reutherland
  18. 10. Mayor Cavanagh and the Limits of Reform
  19. 11. A City Besieged: The Riot of ’67
  20. 12. Post-Riot Reconstruction: The Failure of the Power Elite
  21. 13. Detroit—Black Metropolis of the Future
  22. Epilogue: Detroit—A Reexamination
  23. Notes
  24. Index