A Profile of the Detroit Negro, 1955-1964
Author : Detroit Urban League. Research Department
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Page : 82 pages
File Size : 18,79 MB
Release : 1965
Category : African Americans
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Author : Detroit Urban League. Research Department
Publisher :
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 18,79 MB
Release : 1965
Category : African Americans
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Author : Detroit Urban League. Research Department
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,34 MB
Release : 1965
Category : African Americans
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Author : Kyle T. Mays
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 31,89 MB
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0812298543
In July 2013, Detroit became the largest city in U.S. history to declare bankruptcy. The underlying causes were decades of deindustrialization, white flight, and financial mismanagement. More recently it has been heralded a comeback city as wealthy white residents resettle there. Yet, as Kyle T. Mays argues, we cannot understand the current state of Detroit without also understanding the longer history of Native American and African American dispossession that has defined the city since its founding. How has dispossession impacted the development of modern U.S. cities? And how does comparing the historical experiences of Native Americans and African Americans in an urban context help us comprehend histories of race, sovereignty, and colonialism? Using archives, oral and family histories, and community documents, City of Dispossessions is a cultural, intellectual, and social history that argues that physical and symbolic forms of dispossession of Native Americans and African Americans, and their reactions to dispossession, have been central to Detroit's modern development. The book begins with the first settlement by the Frenchman Cadillac in 1701 and chronicles how the logic of dispossession has continued into the present, through a wide range of forms that include memorialization of the "disappearing Indian," the physical dispossession of African Americans through urban renewal, and gentrification. Mays also chronicles the wide-ranging forms of expression through which Black and Indigenous Detroiters have contested dispossession, such as the Red and Black Power movements and culturally relevant education. Through lively, accessible prose as well as historical and contemporary examples, City of Dispossessions will be of interest to readers of urban studies, Indigenous Studies, and critical ethnic studies.
Author : Bernard L. Peterson Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 41,22 MB
Release : 2000-10-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0313065039
This directory includes over 500 African American performers and theater people who have made a significant contribution to the American stage from the early 19th century to the beginning of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Entries provide succinct biographical and theatrical information gathered from a variety of sources including library theater and drama collections, dissertations and theses, newspaper and magazine reviews and criticism, theater programs, theatrical memoirs, and earlier performing arts directories. Among the professional artists included in this volume are performers, librettists, lyricists, directors, producers, choreographers, stage managers, and musicians. The individuals profiled represent almost every major category and genre of the professional, semiprofessional, regional, and academic stage including minstrelsy, vaudeville, musical theater, and drama. Persons of historical significance are included as well as those stars and theatrical personalities that were well known during their time but who are relatively forgotten today. This comprehensive volume will appeal to theater and musical theater, Black studies, and American studies scholars. Cross-referenced throughout, this reference also includes an extensive bibliography and appendices of other theater personalities excluded from the main text. Separate indexes list the personalities, teams and partnerships, and performing groups, organizations, and companies.
Author : Charlotte J. Dunmore
Publisher : San Francisco : R and E Research Associates
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 50,46 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Reference
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Page : 656 pages
File Size : 50,32 MB
Release : 1964
Category : American literature
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Author : Thomas J. Sugrue
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 17,61 MB
Release : 2014-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1400851211
The reasons behind Detroit’s persistent racialized poverty after World War II Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America’s racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. He challenges the conventional wisdom that urban decline is the product of the social programs and racial fissures of the 1960s. Weaving together the history of workplaces, unions, civil rights groups, political organizations, and real estate agencies, Sugrue finds the roots of today’s urban poverty in a hidden history of racial violence, discrimination, and deindustrialization that reshaped the American urban landscape after World War II. This Princeton Classics edition includes a new preface by Sugrue, discussing the lasting impact of the postwar transformation on urban America and the chronic issues leading to Detroit’s bankruptcy.
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Page : 636 pages
File Size : 28,85 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Union catalogs
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Includes entries for maps and atlases
Author : R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
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Page : 2352 pages
File Size : 40,31 MB
Release : 1978
Category : United States
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Author : Library of Congress
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Page : 638 pages
File Size : 43,13 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Catalogs, Subject
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