Whose Detroit?: Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City 1501709224, 9781501709227

Whose Detroit?: Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City [With a New Prologue ed.] 9781501712814

With deft attention to the historical background and to the dramatic struggles of Detroit's residents, and with a n

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Muslim American City: Gender and Religion in Metro Detroit 9781479877218

Explores how Muslim Americans test the boundaries of American pluralism In 2004, the al-Islah Islamic Center in Hamtram

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Mapping Detroit: Land, Community, and Shaping a City 0814340261, 9780814340264

One of Detroit's most defining modern characteristics-and most pressing dilemmas-is its huge amount of neglected an

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Race and the Politics of Deception: The Making of an American City 9781479871230

What is the relationship between race and space, and how do racial politics inform the organization and development of u

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City of Dispossessions: Indigenous Peoples, African Americans, and the Creation of Modern Detroit 9780812298543

City of Dispossessions argues that the dispossession of Native Americans and African Americans explains the development

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Working-Class Americanism: The Politics of Labor in a Textile City, 1914-1960 9780691228235, 0691089116, 2001058059

In this classic interpretation of the 1930s rise of industrial unionism, Gary Gerstle challenges the popular historical

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Invisible in Austin: Life and Labor in an American City 9781477303665

Austin, Texas, is renowned as a high-tech, fast-growing city for the young and creative, a cool place to live, and the s

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The Politics of Labor: A Critique of American Radical Social Thought by a Canadian Labor Spokesman in 1887 9781487583972

T. Phillips Thompson was one of the leading spokesmen of the Canadian labor and socialist movements for over three decad

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The problem of freedom: race, labor, and politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938 9780801842160, 9780801842917

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Why Detroit Matters: Decline, Renewal and Hope in a Divided City 9781447327899

Detroit has come to symbolise deindustrialization and the challenges, and opportunities, it presents. As many cities str

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