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

• VerfasserIn: Miller, Karen R.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

In Managing Inequality, Karen R. Miller examines the formulation, uses, and growing political importance of northern racial liberalism in Detroit between the two World Wars.In the wake of the Civil War, many white northern leaders supported race-neutral laws and anti-discrimination statutes. These p...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 African American Migration and the Emerging Discourse of Northern Racial Liberalism
• 2 Protecting Urban Peace: Northern Racial Liberalism and the Limits of Racial Equality
• 3 Between Ossian Sweet and the Great Depression: Tolerance and Northern Racial Liberal Discourse in the Late 1920s
• 4 “Living Happily at the Taxpayers’ Expense”: City Managers, African American “Freeloaders,” and White Taxpayers
• 5 “Let Us Act Funny”: Snow Flake Grigsby and Civil Rights Liberalism in the 1930s
• 6 Northern Racial Liberalism and Detroit’s Labor Movement
• 7 “Better Housing Makes Better Citizens”: Slum Clearance and Low-Cost Housing
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author