City of Dispossessions : : Indigenous Peoples, African Americans, and the Creation of Modern Detroit / / Kyle T. Mays.

In July 2013, Detroit became the largest city in U.S. history to declare bankruptcy. The underlying causes were decades of deindustrialization, white flight, and financial mismanagement. More recently it has been heralded a comeback city as wealthy white residents resettle there. Yet, as Kyle T. May...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Politics and Culture in Modern America
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 3 bw halftones, 1 map
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION Dispossession, Detroit!
  • CHAPTER 1 The Roots of Dispossession: From Waawayeyaattanong to Detroit
  • CHAPTER 2 Performing Dispossession: Detroit’s 1901 Bicentenary
  • CHAPTER 3 Reclaiming Detroit: Blackness and Indigeneity During the Age of Fordism
  • CHAPTER 4 Citizenship and Sovereignty: Black Nationalism and Indigenous Self-Determination
  • CHAPTER 5 Black Indigeneity and Urban Indigenous Feminism in Postwar Detroit
  • CHAPTER 6 Dispossession and the Roots of Culturally Relevant Education
  • CONCLUSION “Where Have All the Indians Gone?”: The Afterlife of Dispossession, Detroit
  • NOTES
  • INDEX
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS