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Wide awake in someone else's dream : poems
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ISBN: 081433525X 9780814335253 9780814333822 0814333826 Year: 2008 Publisher: Detroit : Wayne State University Press,

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In line for the exterminator : poems
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ISBN: 0814335489 9780814335482 9780814333815 0814333818 Year: 2007 Publisher: Detroit : Wayne State University Press,

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Within the lighted city
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ISBN: 1587291347 9781587291340 9780877456117 0877456119 Year: 1997 Publisher: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press,

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A collection of interwoven stories set in Detroit. The story, Burning, is on the 1967 race riot, in Self-Defense, a white girl is attacked by black students, and Sophie's Shirt is a mother's grief at the loss of a baby.

Bobweaving Detroit : the selected poems of Murray Jackson
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ISBN: 0814339123 9780814339121 0814331947 9780814331941 Year: 2004 Publisher: Detroit : Wayne State University Press,


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Sin City North : Sex, Drugs, and Citizenship in the Detroit-Windsor Borderland
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ISBN: 1469625229 9781469625225 9781469625218 1469625210 9781469625218 9781469625201 1469625202 9798890848437 Year: 2015 Publisher: Chapel Hill : Baltimore, Md. : University of North Carolina Press, Project MUSE,

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'Sin City North' examines the history of illicit economies in the Detroit-Windsor borderland during the post-World War II period. Karibo uncovers a thriving illegal border culture in the bars, brothels, dance halls, and jazz clubs that emerged around the busiest crossing point between the United States and Canada.


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Detroit's Sojourner Truth housing riot of 1942 : prelude to the race riot of 1943
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ISBN: 1439670889 146714696X Year: 2020 Publisher: Charleston, South Carolina : History Press,

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"During World War II, no American city suffered a worse housing shortage than Detroit, and no one suffered the shortage more than the city's African American citizens. In 1941, the federal government began constructing the Sojourner Truth Housing Project in northeast Detroit to house 200 black war production workers and their families. Almost immediately, whites in the neighborhood vehemently protested. On February 28, 1942, a confrontation between black tenants and white protesters erupted in a riot that sent at least 40 to the hospital and more than 220 to jail. This confrontation was the precursor to the bloodiest race riot of the war just sixteen months later ..."--Back cover


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Corporate Power and Urban Crisis in Detroit
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ISBN: 0691093733 1400871972 Year: 2015 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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Lynda Ann Ewen offers the first thoroughgoing Marxist-Leninist analysis, based on primary research, of the structure and dynamics of class relations and corporate power in a major U.S. metropolitan area. She contends that Detroit's urban crisis is not a temporary aberration in a good system run amuck, but the logical result of years of social planning and the use of human and natural resources for the benefit of the few. In general, analyses of the problems in American society have endorsed capitalist ideals and assumptions. Nevertheless, these analyses and the reform measures that have accompanied them in the past decade have done little to alleviate the plight of the cities. To determine what action should now be taken, Professor Ewen focuses on the development of class conflict in the United States and its manifestations in Detroit. The author analyzes kinship and also ownership and control of the major firms in Detroit. The contradictions that led to the urban crisis, she concludes, are inherent in the fundamental nature of a class society, in which the social means of production are privately owned by an elite group who must produce profits at all costs. She argues that to protect its interests and prepare the way for socialism, the working class requires a grasp of its historical and present opposition to the ruling class.Originally published in 1978.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.


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Shrinking Cities and First Suburbs : The Case of Detroit and Warren, Michigan
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ISBN: 3319517090 3319517082 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book examines Warren, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, as a shrinking city facing a crisis of economic downturn, automotive restructuring, high unemployment, and real estate foreclosures. The author explores Warren’s attempt to develop planning strategies, culturally-based initiatives, community design projects, and creative partnerships in the region in order to address the challenges of shrinkage and foreclosures at multiple scales. Global urban development is currently characterized by varied combination of metropolitan growth and urban core shrinkage. While much of the shrinkage is concentrated in central cities, first suburbs are now facing the same problem. The Warren case illustrates opportunities for flexible policies combining rightsizing, shared maintenance, and incremental development in struggling first suburban communities, which are less studied and often ignored. .


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Seasons of grace : a history of the Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit
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ISBN: 0814343996 0814344003 Year: 2018 Publisher: Wayne State University Press

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Seasons of Grace is a history of the Catholic Church and community in southern lower Michigan from the 1830s through the 1950s. More than a chronicle of clerical successions and institutional expansion, the book also examines those social and cultural influences that affected the development of the Catholic community. To document the course of institutional growth in the diocese, Tentler devotes a portion of the book to tracing the evolution of administrative structures at the Chancery and the founding of parishes, parochial schools, and social welfare organizations. Substantial attention is also given to the social history of the Catholic community, reflected in changes in religious practice, parish life and governance, and the role of women in church organizations and in devotional activities. Tentler also discusses the issue of Catholics in state and local politics and Catholic practice with regard to abortion, contraception, and intermarriage.


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The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford
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ISBN: 1469601575 0807837458 9780807837450 9781469601571 9780807835647 0807835641 9781469613857 1469613859 Year: 2012 Publisher: Chapel Hill : Baltimore, Md. : University of North Carolina Press, Project MUSE,

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In the 1920s, Henry Ford hired thousands of African American men for his open-shop system of auto manufacturing. This move was a rejection of the notion that better jobs were for white men only. In The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford, Beth Tompkins Bates explains how black Detroiters, newly arrived from the South, seized the economic opportunities offered by Ford in the hope of gaining greater economic security. As these workers came to realize that Ford's anti-union ""American Plan"" did not allow them full access to the American Dream, their loyalty eroded, and they s

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