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Whose Detroit

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Author : Heather Ann Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2015-06-09

Whose Detroit written by Heather Ann Thompson and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-09 with Social Science categories.

America's urbanites have engaged in many tumultuous struggles for civil and worker rights since the Second World War. In Whose Detroit?, Heather Ann Thompson focuses in detail on the struggles of Motor City residents during the 1960s and early 1970s and finds that conflict continued to plague the inner city and its workplaces even after Great Society liberals committed themselves to improving conditions. Using the contested urban center of Detroit as a model, Thompson assesses the role of such upheaval in shaping the future of America's cities. She argues that the glaring persistence of injustice and inequality led directly to explosions of unrest in this period. Thompson finds that unrest as dramatic as that witnessed during Detroit's infamous riot of 1967 by no means doomed the inner city, nor in any way sealed its fate. The politics of liberalism continued to serve as a catalyst for both polarization and radical new possibilities and Detroit remained a contested, and thus politically vibrant, urban center. Thompson's account of the post-World War II fate of Detroit casts new light on contemporary urban issues, including white flight, police brutality, civic and shop floor rebellion, labor decline, and the dramatic reshaping of the American political order. Throughout, the author tells the stories of real events and individuals, including James Johnson, Jr., who, after years of suffering racial discrimination in Detroit's auto industry, went on trial in 1971 for the shooting deaths of two foremen and another worker at a Chrysler plant. Bringing the labor movement into the context of the literature of Sixties radicalism, Whose Detroit? integrates the history of the 1960s into the broader political history of the postwar period. Urban, labor, political, and African-American history are blended into Thompson's comprehensive portrayal of Detroit's reaction to pressures felt throughout the nation. With deft attention to the historical background and preoccupations of Detroit's residents, Thompson has written a biography of an entire city at a time of crisis.

Detroit

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Author : Scott Martelle
language : en
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Release Date : 2012

Detroit written by Scott Martelle and has been published by Chicago Review Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Business & Economics categories.

"A valuable biography sure to appeal to readers seeking to come to grips with important problems facing not just a city, but a country."--Kirkus Detroit was established as a French settlement three-quarters of a century before the founding of this nation. A remote outpost built to protect trapping interests, its industry took a great leap forward with the completion of the Erie Canal. Detroit turned iron into stoves and railcars, and eventually cars by the millions. This vibrant commercial hub attracted businessmen and labor organizers, European immigrants and African Americans from the ru.

Detroit

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Author : Scott Martelle
language : en
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Release Date : 2012-04

"A valuable biography sure to appeal to readers seeking to come to grips with important problems facing not just a city, but a country." -Kirkus Detroit was established as a French settlement three-quarters of a century before the founding of this nation. A remote outpost built to protect trapping interests, its industry took a great leap forward with the completion of the Erie Canal. Detroit turned iron into stoves and railcars, and eventually cars by the millions. This vibrant commercial hub attracted businessmen and labor organizers, European immigrants and African Americans from the rural South. At its heyday in the 1950s and '60s, one in six American jobs were connected to the auto industry, its epicenter in Detroit. And then the bottom fell out. Detroit: A Biography takes a long, unflinching look at the evolution of one of America's great cities, and one of the nation's greatest urban failures. It seeks to explain how the city grew to become the heart of American industry and how its utter collapse resulted from a confluence of public policies, private industry decisions, and deep, thick seams of racism. And it raises the question: when we look at modern-day Detroit, are we looking at the ghost of America's industrial past or its future? Scott Martelle is the author of The Fear Within and Blood Passion and is a professional journalist who has written for the Detroit News, the Los Angeles Times, the Rochester Times-Union, and more. He lives in Irvine, California.

The Chicano Movement

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Author : Mario T. Garcia
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-03-26

The Chicano Movement written by Mario T. Garcia and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-26 with Social Science categories.

The largest social movement by people of Mexican descent in the U.S. to date, the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 70s linked civil rights activism with a new, assertive ethnic identity: Chicano Power! Beginning with the farmworkers' struggle led by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta, the Movement expanded to urban areas throughout the Southwest, Midwest and Pacific Northwest, as a generation of self-proclaimed Chicanos fought to empower their communities. Recently, a new generation of historians has produced an explosion of interesting work on the Movement. The Chicano Movement: Perspectives from the Twenty-First Century collects the various strands of this research into one readable collection, exploring the contours of the Movement while disputing the idea of it being one monolithic group. Bringing the story up through the 1980s, The Chicano Movement introduces students to the impact of the Movement, and enables them to expand their understanding of what it means to be an activist, a Chicano, and an American.

Phase Iii

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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Unemployment Compensation
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975

Phase Iii written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Unemployment Compensation and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Insurance, Unemployment categories.

Routledge Handbook Of University Community Partnerships In Planning Education

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Author : Megan E. Heim LaFrombois
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-10-11

Routledge Handbook Of University Community Partnerships In Planning Education written by Megan E. Heim LaFrombois and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-11 with Architecture categories.

This handbook explores two guiding questions – how can university-community partnerships in planning education work, and how can they be transformative? University-community partnerships – often referred to as service-learning or community-engaged teaching and learning – are traditionally based on a collaborative relationship between an academic partner and a community-based partner, in which students from the academic partner work within the community on a project. Transformational approaches to university-community partnerships are approaches that develop and sustain mutually beneficial collaborations where knowledge is co-created and new ways of knowing and doing are discovered. This edited volume examines a variety of university-community partnerships in planning education, from a number of different perspectives, with a focus on transformative models. The authors explore broader theoretical issues, including topics relating to pedagogy, planning theory, and curriculum; along with more practical topics relating to best practices, logistics, institutional support, outcome measures, and the various forms these partnerships can take – all through an array of case studies. The authors, which include academics, professional practitioners, academic practitioners, and students, bring an incredible depth and breadth of knowledge and experience from across the globe – Australia, Canada, Chile, Europe (including Germany, Spain, Slovakia, and Sweden), India, Jamaica, South Korea, and the United States.

A Twenty First Century Approach To Community Change

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Author : Larry M. Gant
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-07-19

A Twenty First Century Approach To Community Change written by Larry M. Gant 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 2017-07-19 with Social Science categories.

Urban renewal has been the dominant approach to revitalizing industrialized communities that fall into decline. A national, community-based organization, the Skillman Foundation sought to engage in a joint effort with the University of Michigan's School of Social Work to bring six neighborhoods in one such declining urban center, Detroit, back to positions of strength and national leadership. A Twenty-First Century Approach to Community Change introduces readers to the basis for the Foundation's solicitation of social work expertise and the social context within which the work of technical assistance began. Building on research, the authors introduce the theory and practice knowledge of earlier scholars, including the conduct of needs assessments at multiple levels, engagement of community members in identifying problem-solving strategies, assistance in developing community goals, and implementation of social work field instruction opportunities. Lessons learned and challenges are described as they played out in the process of creating partnerships for the Foundation with community leaders, engaging and maintaining youth involvement, managing roles and relationships with multiple partners recruited by the Foundation for their specialized expertise, and ultimately conducting the work of technical assistance within a context of increasing influence of the city's surrounding systems (political, economic, educational, and social). Readers will especially note the role of technical assistance in an evolving theory of change.

A History Of Detroit S Palmer Park

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Author : Gregory C. Piazza
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2015

A History Of Detroit S Palmer Park written by Gregory C. Piazza and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Architecture categories.

Palmer Park is Detroit's underappreciated architectural jewel. Located around the intersection of McNichols Road (Six Mile) and Woodward Avenue, it embraces every style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. United States senator Thomas Palmer originally developed the property as farmland and donated it to the city in the 1890s. Between 1924 and 1964, its character changed with some of the best examples of modern apartment living from top local architects, including one of just five buildings credited to the world-renowned Albert Kahn. Author Gregory C. Piazza showcases the exceptional story of building Palmer Park.

In Solidarity

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Author : Kim Moody
language : en
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Release Date : 2014-04-29

In Solidarity written by Kim Moody and has been published by Haymarket Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-29 with Political Science categories.

A thorough collection of inspiring and informed essays on applied Marxist theory and the future of labor unions.

The Book Of Detroiters

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Author : Albert Nelson Marquis
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2016-06-23

The Book Of Detroiters written by Albert Nelson Marquis and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-23 with Reference categories.

Excerpt from The Book of Detroiters: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Living Men of the City of Detroit The Book of Detroiters is the result of a conscientious effort to collect into a single volume of handy dimensions, condensed, accurate, authentic life-sketches of the men who have attained places of distinctive creditability in the city of Detroit. The aim has been to include all those living men whose worth and work count for most in Detroit today: the leaders and prominent factors in all public movements and important private enterprises; the controlling and in uential representatives in business, financial, industrial, religious, educational, literary and other interests of useful and worthy character. In a word, the subjects of this book are the living men whose past endeavors or present activities have contributed most to the progressive achievements and in uences of the city. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

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