Managing Inequality : : Northern Racial Liberalism in Interwar Detroit /

Managing Inequality : : Northern Racial Liberalism in Interwar Detroit / / Karen R. Miller.

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In the wake of the Civil War, many white northern leaders supported race-neutral laws and anti-discrimination statutes. These positions helped amplify the distinctions they drew between their political economic system, which they saw as forward-thinking in its promotion of free market capitalism, an...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Miller, Karen R.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. African American Migration and the Emerging Discourse of Northern Racial Liberalism
  • 2. Protecting Urban Peace
  • 3. Between Ossian Sweet and the Great Depression
  • 4. “Living Happily at the Taxpayers’ Expense”
  • 5. “Let Us Act Funny”
  • 6. Northern Racial Liberalism and Detroit’s Labor Movement
  • 7. “Better Housing Makes Better Citizens”
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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