Calling Detroit Home Life Within The Motor City
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Calling Detroit Home Life Within The Motor City
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A People S History Of Detroit
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Author : Mark Jay
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2020-04-17
A People S History Of Detroit written by Mark Jay and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-17 with Social Science categories.
Recent bouts of gentrification and investment in Detroit have led some to call it the greatest turnaround story in American history. Meanwhile, activists point to the city's cuts to public services, water shutoffs, mass foreclosures, and violent police raids. In A People's History of Detroit, Mark Jay and Philip Conklin use a class framework to tell a sweeping story of Detroit from 1913 to the present, embedding Motown's history in a global economic context. Attending to the struggle between corporate elites and radical working-class organizations, Jay and Conklin outline the complex sociopolitical dynamics underlying major events in Detroit's past, from the rise of Fordism and the formation of labor unions, to deindustrialization and the city's recent bankruptcy. They demonstrate that Detroit's history is not a tale of two cities—one of wealth and development and another racked by poverty and racial violence; rather it is the story of a single Detroit that operates according to capitalism's mandates.
Arab Detroit
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Author : Nabeel Abraham
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2000-08-01
Arab Detroit written by Nabeel Abraham and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-08-01 with History categories.
Metropolitan Detroit is home to one of the largest, most diverse Arab communities outside the Middle East, yet the complex world Arabic-speaking immigrants have created there is barely visible on the landscape of ethnic America. In this volume, Nabeel Abraham and Andrew Shryock bring together the work of twenty-five contributors to create a richly detailed portrait of Arab Detroit. The book goes behind the bulletproof glass in Iraqi Chaldean liquor stores. It explores the role of women in a Sunni mosque and the place of nationalist politics in a Coptic church. It follows the careers of wedding singers, Arabic calligraphers,restaurant owners, and pastry chefs. It examines the agendas of Shia Muslim activists and Washington-based lobbyists and looks at the intimate politics of marriage, family honor, and adolescent rebellion. Memoirs and poems by Lebanese, Chaldean, Yemeni, and Palestinian writers anchor the book in personal experience, while over fifty photographs provide a backdrop of vivid, often unexpected, images. In their efforts to represent an ethnic/immigrant community that is flourishing on the margins of pluralist discourse, the contributors to this book break new ground in the study of identity politics, transnationalism, and diaspora cultures.
Kickstands Up At High Noon
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Author : Gary Dixon
language : en
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Release Date : 2009-08
Kickstands Up At High Noon written by Gary Dixon and has been published by Dog Ear Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08 with categories.
This book is called Kickstands up at High Noon. This is an educational motorcycle book for anyone interested in the motorcycle experience. It contains information regarding motorcycle riding. It also contains information about acquiring a motorcycle license. There is much information about proper riding gear, tips and techniques. Also included are chapters in helping a new rider choose the right motorcycle for that person. There are chapters about setting a motorcycle up to fit a rider's needs. A description of each motorcycle part and their function will give a rider an idea of how a motorcycle works. Many dangerous situations are discussed, that may help a rider to prevent or avoid an accident. Real experiences that happen every day and techniques in avoiding them will be talked about. Riding situations, and helping beginners with difficult functions of the motorcycle. Every aspect of the motorcycle experience is available in this book. Originally from Detroit Michigan, Gary Dixon now calls Clearwater Florida his home. Gary lived the biggest part of his life in the city of Detroit, which is often called "The Motor City." He was born in the heart of the baby boom era in the late nineteen fifties. Surrounded by motor vehicles his whole life gave him no choice but to become a master mechanic, and also the knowledge to write this book. He has been riding motorcycles, and performing work on them the biggest part of his life. He hopes young riders will read this book, and absorb as much information as possible so his knowledge can be passed on.
Motor City Music
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Author : Mark Slobin
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-10-15
Motor City Music written by Mark Slobin and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-15 with Music categories.
This is the first-ever historical study across all musical genres in any American metropolis. Detroit in the 1940s-60s was not just "the capital of the twentieth century" for industry and the war effort, but also for the quantity and extremely high quality of its musicians, from jazz to classical to ethnic. The author, a Detroiter from 1943, begins with a reflection of his early life with his family and others, then weaves through the music traffic of all the sectors of a dynamic and volatile city. Looking first at the crucial role of the public schools in fostering talent, Motor City Music surveys the neighborhoods of older European immigrants and of the later huge waves of black and white southerners who migrated to Detroit to serve the auto and defense industries. Jazz stars, polka band leaders, Jewish violinists, and figures like Lily Tomlin emerge in the spotlight. Shaping institutions, from the Ford Motor Company and the United Auto Workers through radio stations and Motown, all deployed music to bring together a city rent by relentless segregation, policing, and spasms of violence. The voices of Detroit's poets, writers, and artists round out the chorus.
Climate Justice And Community Renewal
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Author : Brian Tokar
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-03-31
Climate Justice And Community Renewal written by Brian Tokar and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-31 with Political Science categories.
This book brings together the voices of people from five continents who live, work, and research on the front lines of climate resistance and renewal. The many contributors to this volume explore the impacts of extreme weather events in Africa, the Caribbean and on Pacific islands, experiences of life-long defenders of the land and forests in Brazil, India, Indonesia, and eastern Canada, and efforts to halt the expansion of fossil-fuel infrastructure from North America to South Africa. They offer various perspectives on how a just transition toward a fossil-free economy can take shape, as they share efforts to protect water resources, better feed their communities, and implement new approaches to urban policy and energy democracy. Climate Justice and Community Renewal uniquely highlights the accounts of people who are directly engaged in local climate struggles and community renewal efforts, including on-the-ground land defenders, community organizers, leaders of international campaigns, agroecologists, activist-scholars, and many others. It will appeal to students, researchers, activists, and all who appreciate the need for a truly justice-centered response to escalating climate disruptions.
Detroit
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Author : Charlie LeDuff
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2013-02-07
Detroit written by Charlie LeDuff and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An explosive exposé of America’s lost prosperity by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Charlie LeDuff “One cannot read Mr. LeDuff's amalgam of memoir and reportage and not be shaken by the cold eye he casts on hard truths . . . A little gonzo, a little gumshoe, some gawker, some good-Samaritan—it is hard to ignore reporting like Mr. LeDuff's.” —The Wall Street Journal “Pultizer-Prize-winning journalist LeDuff . . . writes with honesty and compassion about a city that’s destroying itself–and breaking his heart.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A book full of both literary grace and hard-won world-weariness.” —Kirkus Back in his broken hometown, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff searches the ruins of Detroit for clues to his family’s troubled past. Having led us on the way up, Detroit now seems to be leading us on the way down. Once the richest city in America, Detroit is now the nation’s poorest. Once the vanguard of America’s machine age—mass-production, blue-collar jobs, and automobiles—Detroit is now America’s capital for unemployment, illiteracy, dropouts, and foreclosures. With the steel-eyed reportage that has become his trademark, and the righteous indignation only a native son possesses, LeDuff sets out to uncover what destroyed his city. He beats on the doors of union bosses and homeless squatters, powerful businessmen and struggling homeowners and the ordinary people holding the city together by sheer determination. Detroit: An American Autopsy is an unbelievable story of a hard town in a rough time filled with some of the strangest and strongest people our country has to offer.
Arc Of Justice
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Author : Kevin Boyle
language : en
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Release Date : 2007-04-01
Arc Of Justice written by Kevin Boyle and has been published by Henry Holt and Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-01 with History categories.
An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfights. The advent of automobiles had brought workers from around the globe to compete for manufacturing jobs, and tensions often flared with the KKK in ascendance and violence rising. Ossian Sweet, a proud Negro doctor-grandson of a slave-had made the long climb from the ghetto to a home of his own in a previously all-white neighborhood. Yet just after his arrival, a mob gathered outside his house; suddenly, shots rang out: Sweet, or one of his defenders, had accidentally killed one of the whites threatening their lives and homes. And so it began-a chain of events that brought America's greatest attorney, Clarence Darrow, into the fray and transformed Sweet into a controversial symbol of equality. Historian Kevin Boyle weaves the police investigation and courtroom drama of Sweet's murder trial into an unforgettable tapestry of narrative history that documents the volatile America of the 1920s and movingly re-creates the Sweet family's journey from slavery through the Great Migration to the middle class. Ossian Sweet's story, so richly and poignantly captured here, is an epic tale of one man trapped by the battles of his era's changing times. Arc of Justice is the winner of the 2004 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
Motor City Champs
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Author : Scott Ferkovich
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2018-01-29
Motor City Champs written by Scott Ferkovich and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-29 with Sports & Recreation categories.
In the early 1930s, the Motor City was sputtering from the Great Depression. Then came a talented Detroit Tigers team, steered by player-manager Mickey Cochrane, to inject new pride into the Detroit psyche. It was a cast of colorful characters, with such nicknames as Schoolboy, Goose, Hammerin' Hank and Little Tommy. Over two seasons in 1934 and 1935, the team powered its way to the top of the baseball world, becoming a symbol of a resurgent metropolis and winning the first-ever Tigers championship. This exhaustively researched account provides an in-depth look into a remarkable period in baseball history.
Motor City Legends Michigan S Sports Legacy
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Author : Robert Reynolds
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2017-03-21
Motor City Legends Michigan S Sports Legacy written by Robert Reynolds and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-21 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Motor City Legends explores the rich history of Detroit area and Michigan related competitive sports and individual athletes through the careers of old-time greats as Al Kaline, Doak Walker/Bobby Layne, Gordie Howe, Joe Louis and George Yardley. Also recent legends Barry Sanders, Isiah Thomas, Steve Yzerman, Chauncey Billups, Miquel Cabrera, the Fab Five, defunct teams Michigan Panthers and Detroit Shock, goalie fights, odd Tigers' trades in the 1959/60 seasons, Benton Harbor's House of David baseball teams, and Lions Alex Karras squaring off against pro wrestling bad man Dick the Bruiser. The messy results of Gates Browns' unusual slide into second base. There's the time a rival ball player stole home against the Tigers twice in a single game. Countless items of trivia are presented in this stroll down Michigan Sports Memory Lane. Much of the book centers on a large Who's Who section of many athletic personalities who were raised in Michigan, attended a local school, or played on an athletic team.