Detroit Divided

Author : Reynolds Farley,Sheldon Danziger,Harry J. Holzer
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000-05-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610441988

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Detroit Divided by Reynolds Farley,Sheldon Danziger,Harry J. Holzer Pdf

Unskilled workers once flocked to Detroit, attracted by manufacturing jobs paying union wages, but the passing of Detroit's manufacturing heyday has left many of those workers stranded. Manufacturing continues to employ high-skilled workers, and new work can be found in suburban service jobs, but the urban plants that used to employ legions of unskilled men are a thing of the past. The authors explain why white auto workers adjusted to these new conditions more easily than blacks. Taking advantage of better access to education and suburban home loans, white men migrated into skilled jobs on the city's outskirts, while blacks faced the twin barriers of higher skill demands and hostile suburban neighborhoods. Some blacks have prospered despite this racial divide: a black elite has emerged, and the shift in the city toward municipal and service jobs has allowed black women to approach parity of earnings with white women. But Detroit remains polarized racially, economically, and geographically to a degree seen in few other American cities. A Volume in the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality

Author : Reynolds Farley,Sheldon Danziger,Harry J. Holzer
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0871542811

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Detroit Divided by Reynolds Farley,Sheldon Danziger,Harry J. Holzer Pdf

Unskilled workers once flocked to Detroit, attracted by manufacturing jobs paying union wages, but the passing of Detroit's manufacturing heyday has left many of those workers stranded. Manufacturing continues to employ high-skilled workers, and new work can be found in suburban service jobs, but the urban plants that used to employ legions of unskilled men are a thing of the past. The authors explain why white auto workers adjusted to these new conditions more easily than blacks. Taking advantage of better access to education and suburban home loans, white men migrated into skilled jobs on the city's outskirts, while blacks faced the twin barriers of higher skill demands and hostile suburban neighborhoods. Some blacks have prospered despite this racial divide: a black elite has emerged, and the shift in the city toward municipal and service jobs has allowed black women to approach parity of earnings with white women. But Detroit remains polarized racially, economically, and geographically to a degree seen in few other American cities. A Volume in the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality

Author : Sally Howell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199372003

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Old Islam in Detroit by Sally Howell Pdf

This title documents the rich history of Islam in Detroit, a city that is home to several of America's oldest and most diverse Muslim communities. By looking closely at this history, Sally Howell provides a new interpretation of the possibilities and limits of Muslim incorporation in American life.

Author : Brian Doucet
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447327868

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Why Detroit Matters by Brian Doucet Pdf

The decline of Motor City, USA, may simply seem to be symptomatic of the decline of industrial cities across the world. But as this book shows us, what happens in Detroit matters for other cities globally--and always has. Why Detroit Matters bridges the academic and nonacademic worlds to examine how the story of Detroit offers powerful and universally applicable lessons on urban decline, planning, urban development, race relations, revitalization, and governance. Reflecting the diversity of the city, Why Detroit Matters includes contributions both from leading scholars and some of the city's most influential writers, planners, artists, and activists--including author George Galster, activist and author Grace Lee Boggs, author John Gallagher, and artist Tyree Guyton--who have all contributed chapters drawing on their rich experience and ideas. Also featuring edited transcripts of interviews with prominent visionaries who are developing innovative solutions to the challenges in Detroit, this book will be of keen interest to urban scholars and students in a variety of disciplines--from geography to economics, sociology, and urban and planning studies--as well as practitioners, including urban and regional planners, urban designers, community activists, and politicians and policy makers. Detroit, this book makes clear, could be a model of renewal and hope for the many cities suffering from similar problems, both in America and beyond.

Author : Denita Cepiku,So Hee Jeon,David K. Jesuit
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351034043

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Collaborative Governance for Local Economic Development by Denita Cepiku,So Hee Jeon,David K. Jesuit Pdf

Although collaborations for local and regional economic development have been popular in recent years, it is not yet wholly clear when or how such efforts bring successful outcomes. Using an integrative conceptual framework for collaborative governance, this innovative collection provides a systematic and interdisciplinary analysis of real-world collaborative networks for local and regional economic development. Focusing on a wide range collaborative economic development in diverse cities and regions in USA, Canada, Germany, India, Italy, and South Korea, the chapters explore what forces motivate the emergence of collaborative economic development efforts. Each chapter explores the factors which contribute to or hinder collaborative governance efforts for economic development and identifies lessons for overcoming challenges to creating communities that are economically resilient, environmentally sustainable and politically engaged in the era of globalization. By focusing on collaborative governance and its implications for the ability of policies to meet the challenges of the 21st century, it provides lessons for researchers in public management, urban planning/development, public policy, and political science, as well as practitioners interested in promoting local economic development.

Author : Gerald Grant
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674032941

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Hope and Despair in the American City by Gerald Grant Pdf

Reading the philosophy of Immanuel Levinas against postcolonial theories of difference, particularly those of Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Édouard Glissant, and Subcommandante Marcos, John E. Drabinski reconceives notions of difference, language, subjectivity, ethics, and politics and provides new perspectives on these important postcolonial theorists. He also underscores Levinas's relevance to related disciplines concerned with postcolonialism and ethics.

Author : Mark Tushnet
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780393077513

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A Court Divided: The Rehnquist Court and the Future of Constitutional Law by Mark Tushnet Pdf

"An incisive consideration of the Supremes, offering erudite yet accessible clues to legal thinking on the most important level."--Kirkus Reviews In this authoritative reckoning with the eighteen-year record of the Rehnquist Court, Georgetown law professor Mark Tushnet reveals how the decisions of nine deeply divided justices have left the future of the Court; and the nation; hanging in the balance. Many have assumed that the chasm on the Court has been between its liberals and its conservatives. In reality, the division was between those in tune with the modern post-Reagan Republican Party and those who, though considered to be in the Court's center, represent an older Republican tradition. As a result, the Court has modestly promoted the agenda of today's economic conservatives, but has regularly defeated the agenda of social issues conservatives; while paving the way for more radically conservative path in the future.

Author : Ray C. Anderson,Sara G. Beavis,Michael L. Dougherty,Tirso Gonzales,Ricardo Braun,Muhammad Aurang Zeb Mughal,Mark Wilson
Publisher : Berkshire Publishing Group
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781933782737

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Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability 8/10 by Ray C. Anderson,Sara G. Beavis,Michael L. Dougherty,Tirso Gonzales,Ricardo Braun,Muhammad Aurang Zeb Mughal,Mark Wilson Pdf

The Americas and Oceania: Assessing Sustainability provides extensive coverage of sustainability practices in two regions linked culturally and historically by their relative isolation before the Columbian exchange, by their colonization after it, and by the challenges of pollution, resource overuse, and environmental degradation. Regional experts and international scholars focus on environmental history in areas such as the South Pacific islands, now particularly threatened by rising ocean levels due to climate change, and on countries whose governments and corporations can play a major role in promoting or discouraging sustainable choices: Brazil, an emergent power on the world stage; the United States, the world's third most populous nation; and New Zealand, seemingly on its way to becoming an enviable model of sustainable development.

Author : Alan Mallach
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781610917810

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The Divided City by Alan Mallach Pdf

In The Divided City, urban practitioner and scholar Alan Mallach presents a detailed picture of what has happened over the past 15 to 20 years in industrial cities like Pittsburgh and Baltimore, as they have undergone unprecedented, unexpected revival. He spotlights these changes while placing them in their larger economic, social and political context. Most importantly, he explores the pervasive significance of race in American cities, and looks closely at the successes and failures of city governments, nonprofit entities, and citizens as they have tried to address the challenges of change. The Divided City concludes with strategies to foster greater equality and opportunity, firmly grounding them in the cities' economic and political realities.

Author : Holly M. Karibo
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469625218

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Sin City North by Holly M. Karibo Pdf

The early decades of the twentieth century sparked the Detroit-Windsor region's ascendancy as the busiest crossing point between Canada and the United States, setting the stage for socioeconomic developments that would link the border cities for years to come. As Holly M. Karibo shows, this border fostered the emergence of illegal industries alongside legal trade, rapid industrial development, and tourism. Tracing the growth of the two cities' cross-border prostitution and heroin markets in the late 1940s and the 1950s, Sin City North explores the social, legal, and national boundaries that emerged there and their ramifications. In bars, brothels, and dance halls, Canadians and Americans were united in their desire to cross racial, sexual, and legal lines in the border cities. Yet the increasing visibility of illicit economies on city streets—and the growing number of African American and French Canadian women working in illegal trades—provoked the ire of moral reformers who mobilized to eliminate them from their communities. This valuable study demonstrates that struggles over the meaning of vice evolved beyond definitions of legality; they were also crucial avenues for residents attempting to define productive citizenship and community in this postwar urban borderland.

Author : Jennifer Carlson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199347575

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Citizen-Protectors by Jennifer Carlson Pdf

From gang- and drug-related shootings to mass shootings in schools, shopping centers, and movie theatres, reports of gun crimes fill the headlines of newspapers and nightly news programs. At the same time, a different kind of headline has captured public attention: a steady surge in pro-gun sentiment among Americans. In Citizen-Protectors, Jennifer Carlson offers a compelling portrait of gun carriers, shedding light on Americans' complex relationship with guns. Delving headlong into the world of guns, Carlson participated in firearms training classes, attending pro-gun events, and carried a firearm herself. Through these experiences, she explores the role guns play in the lives of Americans who carry them and shows how, against a backdrop of economic insecurity and social instability, gun carrying becomes a means of being a good citizen. A much-needed counterpoint to the rhetorical battles over gun control, Citizen-Protectors is a captivating and revealing look at gun culture in America, and a must-read for anyone with a stake in this heated debate.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Michigan
ISBN : UOM:39015027784191

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American Biographical History of Eminent and Self-made Men by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michigan. Constitutional Convention
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 990 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Constitutional amendments
ISBN : UOMDLP:aew7788:0001.001

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Report of the Proceedings and Debates in the Convention to Revise the Constitution of the State of Michigan. 1850 by Michigan. Constitutional Convention Pdf

Author : Jan Canty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578685922

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A Life Divided by Jan Canty Pdf

Narrative nonfiction true crime memoir in which a psychologist describes the fallout from her spouse's murder and how she regained her momentum.

Author : Vibha Bhalla
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Detroit (Mich.)
ISBN : MSU:31293023740644

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American Dreams by Vibha Bhalla Pdf