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A People's Atlas of Detroit /

Critical, wide-ranging analyses of Detroit's redevelopment and alternative visions for its future.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Stallmann, Tim (Editor ), Safransky, Sara (Editor ), Newman, Andrew (Editor ), Campbell, Linda (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2020]
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