A People's Atlas of Detroit /
Critical, wide-ranging analyses of Detroit's redevelopment and alternative visions for its future.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Detroit :
Wayne State University Press,
[2020]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Maps and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Detroit and the Long Struggle for Liberation
- Introduction
- Mapping Slavery in Detroit
- City of Midnight: The Underground Railroad and Anti-Slavery Resistance in Detroit
- Labor Struggles
- Race and the Right to Housing
- The Walk to Freedom
- 1967: "Riot is a Four-Letter Word"
- Speaking with Grace and Sterling
- Chapter 2. This Land is Ours: Toward a New Urban Commons
- Introduction
- "Defending the Land is Important."
- Detroit-Opoly: Who Owns and Cares for Land in Detroit?
- "This Is What We Call Home"
- Backyard Garden
- The River Rats: Fishing, Mutuality, and Community
- Detroit/Windsor: Building a Cross-Border Commons
- "We Need to Put Together a Plan That Honors People in This Place, On This Land"
- Chapter 3. Growing a Revolution
- Introduction
- Urban Agriculture in Detroit: A Long Tradition
- "We Actually Have the Capacity to Define Our Own Reality"
- Resurget Cineribus
- "Liberated Territory is a Means of Survival"
- "We're Just Beginning the Journey."
- "Poor People Are Not Some Exotic Breed of People
- They're Our Brothers and Sisters"
- "There's a Narrative of the New Detroit, but It Doesn't Include the Majority of Detroit"
- "We are Trying to Build Foundational Relationships That Transcend Any Issue"
- "Food Justice Beyond Urban Agriculture"
- Chapter 4. Suspending Democracy is Violence
- Introduction
- "Put Your Body and Put Your Voice into Debates"
- On Citywide Suffrage: "People who are undocumented are human. They have rights"
- The Detroit People's Platform
- The Fight for a Community Benefits Agreement Ordinance in Detroit
- No Alternative? People's Plan for Restructuring
- "We Believe in People Power"
- United Nations Deems Water Shutoffs a Human Rights Violation
- "You Have Taxation without Representation"
- Election Reflection
- Detroit
- Chapter 5. Gentrification is Only Part of It: Understanding Race and Displacement in Detroit
- Introduction
- Black Homeownership in Detroit
- Corporate Power and the Reinvention of Detroit: Address Given to the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Congress at Wayne State University, 2014
- Letter to Alden Park Towers Management
- The Campaign for the Griswold Seniors: "If I had the money, I wouldn't move"
- Detroit Future City: Urban Sustainability as a Force of Displacement
- The Riverfront East Congregation Initiative: "Do they have our community's best interests at heart?"
- Toward Land Justice: "When we stop dreaming, we have no hope but to remain stuck in a nightmare. Dreaming ... we remember the taste of freedom"
- "Most of the Work We Do Is Systems Change Work"
- Chapter 6. The Right to the City
- Introduction
- The Right to Water
- Why I Choose to Block Water Shutoff Trucks