Whose Detroit?: Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City (with a New Prologue)

by Heather Ann Thompson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080143520X
• ISBN13: 9780801435201
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher