Life for Us Is What We Make It: Building Black Community in Detroit, 1915-1945

by Richard W. Thomas

"Thomas's ground-breaking study should occupy a central place in the literature of American urban history." --Choice

" . . . path-breaking . . . a fine community study . . . " --Journal of American Studies

"Thomas's work is essential reading . . . succeeds in providing a bridge of information on the social, political, legal, and economic development of the Detroit black community between the turn of the century and 1945." --Michigan...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253359902
• ISBN13: 9780253359902
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"