Whose Detroit?: Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City 1501709224, 9781501709227

In Whose Detroit?, Heather Ann Thompson focuses in detail on the African American struggles for full equality and equal

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Whose Detroit?: Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City
1501709224, 9781501709227

With deft attention to the historical background and to the dramatic struggles of Detroit's residents, and with a n

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In this provocative and accessible urban history, Lila Corwin Berman considers the role that Detroit’s Jews played in th

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Explores how Muslim Americans test the boundaries of American pluralism In 2004, the al-Islah Islamic Center in Hamtram

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A stirring biography of a hero in the struggle for economic justice and a book that probes the question: Whatever happen

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In 1995, promising a more active political presence for unions, John Sweeney was elected president of the AFL-CIO. Labor

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T. Phillips Thompson was one of the leading spokesmen of the Canadian labor and socialist movements for over three decad

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City of Dispossessions argues that the dispossession of Native Americans and African Americans explains the development

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Detroit has come to symbolise deindustrialization and the challenges, and opportunities, it presents. As many cities str

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