Whose detroit. Does not recount the 1967 detroit riot that resulted in the death of 43 people three quarters of whom were african americans and the destruction of millions of dollars of property. Brings the labor movement into the context of the literature of sixties radicalism and integrates the history of the 1960s into the broader political history of the postwar period. Politics labor and race in a modern american city americas urbanites have engaged in many tumultuous struggles for civil and worker rights since the second world war.
Instead the author outlines the pressure cooker atmosphere that existed within the plants on the eve of the 1967 riot. Politics labor and race in a modern american city by heather ann thompson in whose detroit heather ann thompson focuses in detail on the african american struggles for full equality and equal justice under the law that shaped the motor city during the 1960s and 1970s. Urban labor political and african american history are blended into thompsons comprehensive portrayal of detroits reaction to pressures felt throughout the nation.
In her book whose detroit heather ann thompson examined the racial and political tensions that plagued detroit for much of the 20th century and how these continued tensions led to an uprising. Politics labor and race in a modern american city americas urbanites have engaged in many tumultuous struggles for civil and worker rights since the second world war. In whose detroit heather ann thompson focuses in detail on the struggles of motor city residents during the 1960s and early 1970s and finds that conflict continued to plague the inner city and its workplaces even after great society liberals committed themselves to improving conditions.