Negotiating Race in Detroit
Author | : Erin Noelle Winkler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 658 |
Release | : 2005 |
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Author | : Erin Noelle Winkler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 658 |
Release | : 2005 |
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Author | : William Ellison Chalmers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Author | : William Ellison Chalmers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Negotiation |
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Author | : Joe T. Darden |
Publisher | : MSU Press |
Total Pages | : 789 |
Release | : 2013-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 160917352X |
Episodes of racial conflict in Detroit form just one facet of the city’s storied and legendary history, and they have sometimes overshadowed the less widely known but equally important occurrence of interracial cooperation in seeking solutions to the city’s problems. The conflicts also present many opportunities to analyze, learn from, and interrogate the past in order to help lay the groundwork for a stronger, more equitable future. This astute and prudent history poses a number of critical questions: Why and where have race riots occurred in Detroit? How has the racial climate changed or remained the same since the riots? What efforts have occurred since the riots to reduce racial inequality and conflicts, and to build bridges across racial divides? Unique among books on the subject, Detroit pays special attention to post-1967 social and political developments in the city, and expands upon the much-explored black-white dynamic to address the influx of more recent populations to Detroit: Middle Eastern Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans. Crucially, the book explores the role of place of residence, spatial mobility, and spatial inequality as key factors in determining access to opportunities such as housing, education, employment, and other amenities, both in the suburbs and in the city.
Author | : Robert Shogan |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1976-06-21 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Chanel Meyers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
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Author | : Otis Milton Smith |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780814329399 |
In Looking Beyond Race, Otis Milton Smith recounts his life as an African American who overcame poverty and prejudice to become a successful politician, and eventual president of General Motors. In Looking Beyond Race, Otis Milton Smith (1922-94) recounts his life as an African American who overcame poverty and prejudice to become a successful politician, going on to become the first black vice president and general counsel of General Motors. Born in the slums of Memphis, Tennessee, Smith was the illegitimate son of a black domestic worker and her prominent white employer. Although he identified with his mother's blackness, he inherited his father's white complexion. This left him open to racism from whites, who resented his African American heritage, and blacks, who resented his skin color. Throughout his life, Smith worked with and met many prominent Americans. He knew boxer Joe Louis, future general Daniel "Chappie" James, future Detroit mayor Coleman Young, and the nation's first African American general, B. O. Davis Jr. Through politics he knew Michigan's prominent politicians and was appointed by Governor John Swainson to the Michigan Supreme Court, making him the first black man since Reconstruction to sit on any supreme court in the nation. Smith also knew nationally known figures such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Estes Kevfauver, and presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. Through his civil rights work, he met A. P. Tureaud, Roy Wilkins, and Benjamin Hooks, and he worked closely with Vernon Jordan. Looking Beyond Race provides a rare glimpse into the inner workings of America's largest corporation. Smith was an early advocate of the increased cooperation between business and government that was so necessary for business negotiating the complexities of a global economy. In 1983 he retired as general counsel for the corporation, having been the company's first black officer. This memoir, which Smith dictated during the three years before his death in 1994, is a compelling tale that ends with the inspirational story of Smith's reconciliation with his white relatives who still live in the South. In this highly readable memoir, Looking Beyond Race provides a moving tale that will appeal to readers interested in African American history, politics, labor relations, business, and Michigan history.
Author | : Robert Shogan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : African Americans |
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Author | : Heather Ann Thompson |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2017-04-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1501709224 |
"Thompson's engrossing book is essential for any collection on the history, politics, or society of post–World War II America."― Library Journal In Whose Detroit?, Heather Ann Thompson focuses in detail on the African American struggles for full equality and equal justice under the law that shaped the Motor City during the 1960s and 1970s. Even after Great Society liberals committed themselves to improving conditions in Detroit, Thompson argues, poverty and police brutality continued to plague both neighborhoods and workplaces. Frustration with entrenched discrimination and the lack of meaningful remedies not only led black residents to erupt in the infamous urban uprising of 1967, but it also sparked myriad grassroots challenges to postwar liberalism in the wake of that rebellion. With deft attention to the historical background and to the dramatic struggles of Detroit's residents, and with a new prologue that argues for the ways in which the War on Crime and mass incarceration also devastated the Motor City over time, Thompson has written a biography of an entire nation at a time of crisis.
Author | : Detroit (Mich.). Mayor's Committee on Race Relations |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : African Americans |
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