Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW

Meier, August; Rudwick, Elliott

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“…Thus, despite these challenges across metro Detroit and its schools, a burgeoning strand of literature and some Detroiters tell another story about the city's neighborhoods that resist mainstream, deficit notions, especially ones about African American communities (Coleman 2014;Meier and Rudwick 2007;Pedroni 2011;Surkin and Georgakas 2012;Williams 2012). For example, Detroit has strong cultural history, museums, and formerly had the largest Black middle-class in the U.S.…”

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Places of Inequality, Places of Possibility: Mapping “Opportunity in Geography” Across Urban School-Communities

Green

2015

Urban Rev

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For decades, research on geography of opportunity has indicated that where people live impacts their access to opportunities, especially education. Most research on geography of opportunity has focused on spatial inequality between low and high opportunity neighborhoods, which has unintentionally fostered narrow perspectives about low-opportunity neighborhoods that often obscure the assets within them. As such, the purpose of this study is to examine what I call opportunity in geography, which is a conceptual and research approach that reconsiders low-opportunity, urban communities of color as not only places of inequality, but also places of possibility. To illustrate the approach, this study uses Geographic Information Systems to map institutional assets across the two lowest opportunity neighborhoods in Detroit, Michigan, according to poverty and educational attainment rates. Asset-based community development is used to conceptually frame this study and to guide the analysis. Findings indicate that, collectively, the two lowest opportunity neighborhoods in Detroit have a total of 85 institutional assets, including: 48 places of worship, 19 schools at the K-12 level, 11 community centers, 4 hospitals, 2 libraries, and 1 university. The study concludes with a discussion about the tensions in this work as well as implications for policy and future research.Keywords Geography of opportunity Á School-community relations Á Neighborhood effects Á Urban school reform Access to opportunities in the United States (U.S.) is inequitable across geographic spaces. Structural racism, discriminatory policy decisions, and uneven development & Terrance L. Green

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Section: Detroit Public Schools (Dps)mentioning

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Places of Inequality, Places of Possibility: Mapping “Opportunity in Geography” Across Urban School-Communities

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2015

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“…Not even the wartime patriotism of northern white workers could overcome embedded racial attitudes, and most unions did little to alter rank and file thinking. 18 Not surprisingly, given its deep currents in the American past, the issue of religion also confronted New Deal liberalism, although not openly until after the war. This was perhaps ironic for, in prewar liberal opinion, religion was thought at best a private affair without serious public meaning.…”

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The Long Exception: Rethinking the Place of the New Deal in American History

Cowie

Salvatore

2008

Inter. Labor Working-Class Hist.

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Abstract"The Long Exception" examines the period from Franklin Roosevelt to the end of the twentieth century and argues that the New Deal was more of an historical aberration-a byproduct of the massive crisis of the Great Depression-than the linear triumph of the welfare state. The depth of the Depression undoubtedly forced the realignment of American politics and class relations for decades, but, it is argued, there is more continuity in American politics between the periods before the New Deal order and those after its decline than there is between the postwar era and the rest of American history. Indeed, by the early seventies the arc of American history had fallen back upon itself. While liberals of the seventies and eighties waited for a return to what they regarded as the normality of the New Deal order, they were actually living in the final days of what Paul Krugman later called the "interregnum between Gilded Ages." The article examines four central themes in building this argument: race, religion, class, and individualism. Abstract "The Long Exception" examines the period from Franklin Roosevelt to the end of the twentieth century and argues that the New Deal was more of an historical aberrationa byproduct of the massive crisis of the Great Depression-than the linear triumph of the welfare state. The depth of the Depression undoubtedly forced the realignment of American politics and class relations for decades, but, it is argued, there is more continuity in American politics between the periods before the New Deal order and those after its decline than there is between the postwar era and the rest of American history. Indeed, by the early seventies the arc of American history had fallen back upon itself. While liberals of the seventies and eighties waited for a return to what they regarded as the normality of the New Deal order, they were actually living in the final days of what Paul Krugman later called the "interregnum between Gilded Ages." The article examines four central themes in building this argument: race, religion, class, and individualism. Required Publisher Statement

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“…SKURZYNSKI, 2008. Algunos autores se han interesado por cuestiones de género o raciales, KENT, 1993;COBBLE, 2007;MEIER, 2007. 8 Sorprende que obras consideradas clásicas de la Guerra Fría y de la Europa de postguerra no mencionen a la AFL-CIO de manera explicita, ni a su influyente presidente, George Meany. JUDT, 2005.…”

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La AFL-CIO y el sindicalismo español, 1953-1971

Jiménez

2015

Hispania

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Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW

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The Long Exception: Rethinking the Place of the New Deal in American History

La AFL-CIO y el sindicalismo español, 1953-1971

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