Dominic J. Capeci, Jr.: Race Relations in Wartime Detroit

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>The dramatic story of racial attitudes and political strategies that set the stage for the historic riot of 1943<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780877223399&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="326_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>Race Relations in Wartime Detroit</h1> <H2>The Sojourner Truth Housing Controversy, 1937-1942</H2> <h3>Dominic J. Capeci, Jr.</h3> <P>cloth 0-87722-339-4 $37.95, Jun 84, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Out of Print</FONT> <BR></P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"</I>Detroit<I> is a wonderfully thorough compendium of urban inequality. It should quickly establish itself as the definitive study for Detroit-area planners and policy makers. For teachers and students in the Detroit metropolitan region, this book will prove invaluable as a reference text. The quantitative data are presented with minimal, but appropriate, statistical analysis, helpful maps, and well-organized tables. The case studies of struggle for school and housing integration make up some of the most readable sections of the book and power structure research methods are sure to shed new light on such development projects as the Renaissance Center."</I> <br>&#151<b><I>Contemporary Sociology</I></b><I></I></BLOCKQUOTE> <p>As the nation shifted from the Depression to the second world war, federal involvement in urban affairs was increasing, war service was raising black expectation, and the city of Detroit was at a turning point in its socioeconomic and political development. A controversy over a defense housing tract built for black workers and named for the black abolitionist Sojourner Truth brought into focus the conflict and complex interacting between the races, the white immigrant workers, and the local and federal government. The dramatic story of racial attitudes and political strategies during this five-year period sets the stage for the historic riot of 1943. <BR> <h2>Reviews</h2> <p><I>"The book offers fine treatments of the rise of black political power, of the efforts to rejuvenate downtown and the waterfront, and of the debt of the city in efforts to acquire new industrial and service-oriented development.... Overall, </I>Detroit<I> ably achieves the goals of the series. The perspective is truly interdisciplinary, reflecting the authors' backgrounds. It is a thoroughly enjoyable geography, in the best sense of the word, of the Detroit metropolitan region."</I> <br>&#151<b><I>Geographical Reviews</I></b> <BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P> <p>List of Maps, Figures, and Tables <br>Preface: Angles of Vision <br>Series Preface <p>1. Detroit: An Overview <p>2. Uneven Development in Metropolitan Detroit <br><I>The Motor City &#149 One Detroit, Two Detroits, Many Detroits &#149 Coming Full Circle: Renaissance on the Riverfront &#149 Conclusion</I> <p>3. Patterns of Race and Class Disparity <br><I>Patterns of Race &#149 Black Protest &#149 Racial Disparity in Social and Economic Life &#149 The Pattern of Race within Detroit, 1940-1980 &#149 The Spatial Distribution of Blacks and Housing Costs, 1960-1980 &#149 The Consequences of Racial Segregation &#149 Differential Patterns of Racial Mobility in the Suburbs &#149 Patterns of Class &#149 Conclusion</I> <p>4. Interracial Conflict and Cooperation: Housing as a Case Study <br><I>The Emerging Conflict &#149 Building Barricades vs. Welcoming the Strangers &#149 Building an Interracial Movement for Fair Housing &#149 Suburban Resistance to HUD &#149 Maintaining the Struggle and the Dream &#149 Conclusion</I> <p>5. City Redevelopment Policies <br><I>The Detroit Plan and the Problem of Slums &#149 Slum Clearance through Urban Renewal &#149 Balancing Redevelopment Resources &#149 Conclusion</I> <p>6. Politics and Policy in Metropolitan Detroit <br><I>Black Political Power in Detroit &#149 Metropolitan School Desegregation: A Policy Issue &#149 Toward Metropolitan Cooperation &#149 Conclusion</I> <p>7. What Future for Detroit? <br><I>Uneven Development &#149 Patterns of Race and Class &#149 Redevelopment Policies &#149 Interracial Conflict and Cooperation &#149 Regional Politics &#149 Guideposts for the Future</I> <p>Notes <br>Index </P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2> <P><b>Dominic J. Capeci</b>, Jr. is Professor of History at Southwest Missouri State University and is the author of <i>The Harlem Riot of 1943</i>.</P> <BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2> <p><A HREF="/tempress/urban.html" TARGET="_top">Urban Studies</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/history.html" TARGET="_top">History</a> </p> <p align="center"><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780877223399&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="copyright.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Web Copyright Policy';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Web Copyright Policy">©</a> 2015 <a href="http://www.temple.edu" target="new" onMouseOver="window.status='Link to Temple University home page';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Link to Temple University home page">Temple University</a>. 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