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African Americans Michigan Detroit History 20th century Detroit (Mich.) Fiction Detroit (Mich.) History 20th century Detroit (Mich.) Pictorial works Detroit (Mich.) Social conditions 21st century Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogs Detroit Institute of Arts. Jazz Michigan Detroit Swing (Music)Cintrón, Esperanza Malavé
Summary: "Esperanza Cintrón's Shades: Detroit Love Stories is a short story collection that is distinctly Detroit. By touching on a number of romantic and sexual encounters that span the historical and temporal spaces of the city, each of these interconnected stories examines the obstacles an individual faces and the choices he or she makes in order to cope and, hopefully, survive in the changing urban...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CINBoyd, Herb
Summary: "Award-winning journalist Herb Boyd chronicles the fascinating history of Detroit through the lens of the African American experience. Offering an expansive discussion of this iconic city, Black Detroit ranges in subject from Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac's initial vision of what would become a thriving metropolis to the city's glory days as the center of American commerce; from the waves of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 BOYLester, Larry.
Summary: Chronicles the history of the various teams and players that spent time in the "Motor city." From the aftermath of the First World War, through the Jazz Age and Prohibition, the Great Depression, and through the 1950s, the history of the Negro Leagues parallels the history of Black America, from segregation to full inclusion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia Pub. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 LESKatzman, David M.
Summary: This volume helps fill the gap between slavery and the ghetto in both urban and black history. The author examines a nineteenth century black community in depth, Detroit, and shows that although slavery was abolished in Michigan in 1837, racial distinctions remained in the law and a caste-like social system locked most blacks into an inferior status.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 1973
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 KATDetroit Institute of Arts
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hudson Hills Press 0000
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.13 AmeRandall, Alice
Summary: In the black-owned-and-operated Kirkwood Hospital, Joseph "Ziggy" Johnson reflects on his life. From the Great Depression through the post-World War II years, Ziggy had been the pulse of Detroit's famous Black Bottom. A celebrated gossip columnist for the city's African-American newspaper, the Michigan Chronicle, he was also the emcee of one of the hottest night clubs, where he rubbed elbows...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RANCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RANStanton, Tom
Summary: Detroit 1936: In a city abuzz over its unrivaled sports success, baseball fan Dayton Dean is arrested for murder. Though said to have a childlike intelligence, Dean possesses a vivid memory and a hunger for attention. He gives police a story about a secret Klan-like organization called the Black Legion, responsible for countless murders, floggings, and fire bombings. The Legion has tens of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2016
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 STACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 STACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 364 STACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.152 STACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Crime Mur StantonThomas, Richard Walter
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Publisher / Publication Date: Indiana University Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 THODetroit Institute of Arts
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Publisher / Publication Date: Published for the Detroit Institute of Arts by the Smithsonian Institution Press 1995
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 730.09 AFRVarious Artists
Contents: Cigarette lighter / Japanese Telecom. -- Breakout / Ectomorph. -- Minors at night / Adult. -- Fogdust vs. Detroit / Paris the Black Fu. -- It's time / Keith Tucker. -- Whatchulookinat / DJ Godfather. -- Hoes / DJ Assault. -- No no / Aaron-Carl. -- If snow was black / Detroit Grand Pubahs. -- Murder scene / Andy Toth. -- A.M. / Maersk. -- Capture / Tony Ollivierra. -- Character maps remix /...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Intuit-Solar 1969
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC COMTaylor, Paul
Summary: Overview: Though it was located far away from Southern battlefields, Detroit churned with unrest during the American Civil War. The city's population, including a large German and Irish immigrant community, mostly aligned with anti-war Democrats while the rest of the state stood with the pro-Lincoln Republicans. The virulently anti-Lincoln and anti-Black Detroit Free Press fanned the city's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7474 TAYDarden, Joe T.
Summary: Episodes of racial conflict in Detroit form just one facet of the city's storied and legendary history, and they have sometimes overshadowed the less widely known but equally important occurrence of interracial cooperation in seeking solutions to the city's problems. The conflicts also present many opportunities to analyze, learn from, and interrogate the past in order to help lay the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 DARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.896 DAREstleman, Loren D.
Summary: After some innocent black men are shot by a white policeman, the Detroit police appoint Officer Charlie Battle, a black policeman, to carry out an investigation, then put every possible obstacle in his way. But were the blacks really innocent? Battle's probe is complicated by the arrival of the FBI, the case involving Black Panthers. The story is set in the early 1970s. By the author of Edsel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTContents: The boys are back in town / Everclear (4:07) -- Shout it out loud / Kiss (2:47) -- Runnin' with the devil / Van Halen (3:34) -- Cat scratch fever / Pantera (3:48) -- Iron man / Black Sabbath (5:54) -- Highway to hell / Marilyn Manson (3:46) -- 20th century boy / Drain sth (4:28) -- Detroit Rock City / Kiss (3:35) -- Jailbreak / Thin Lizzy (4:00) -- Surrender (Live) / Cheap Trick (4:22) -- Rebel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mercury 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC DETSummary: Black in the Middle brings the voices of Black Midwesterners front and center. Filled with compelling personal narratives, thought-provoking art, and searing commentaries, this anthology explores the various meanings and experiences of blackness throughout the Rust Belt, the Midwest, and the Great Plains. Bringing together people from major metropolitan centers like Detroit and Chicago as well...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belt Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.0496 BLAReyes Taubman, Julia
Summary: Over the past six years, documentary photographer and architectural historian Julia Reyes Taubman has taken more than 30,000 photographs across the sprawled terrain of Detroit, ambitiously mapping out a comprehensive survey of a major American city. Photographing on the ground, in the buildings and by air and water, Reyes Taubman believes that when buildings and landscape are manipulated by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Museum of Contemporary Art 2011
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 715 REYContents: Sarah Addae -- Sunstruck 35 -- / Saladin Ahmed -- Stereo Links 37 -- / Ron Allen -- Incinerator 39 -- Phraseology of a Mood 41 -- / Alise Alousi -- Trumbull Song 43 -- For D. M. 46 -- / Mitzi Alvin -- Motoring 48 -- / Olivia V. Ambrogio -- They Say God Marks 50 -- / Alvin Aubert -- You'd Have to See It 52 -- Numbers 52 -- Chene Park 53 -- / Irvine Barat -- Four Decades Ago 55 -- / Faruq Z. Bey...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Arnaud, Michel
Summary: [This book] is a visual essay on the rebuilding and resurgence of the city of Detroit by photographer Michel Arnaud, co-author of Design Brooklyn. In recent years, much of the focus on Detroit has been on the negative stories and images of shuttered, empty buildings-- the emblems of Detroit's financial and physical decline. In contrast, Arnaud aims his lens at the emergent creative enterprises...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Hot Club of Detroit
Contents: Belleville / D. Reinhardt (4:41) -- Passion / J. Colombo, A. Murena (2:47) -- Honeysuckle rose / A. Razaf, T. Waller (3:41) -- Leila / W. Montgomery (5:14) -- Stompin' at Decca / D. Reinhardt (4:33) -- Nuages / D. Reinhardt (6:58) -- Swing one / E. Perri (4:41) -- Aurore / F. Lafertin (5:34) -- How insensitive / A.C. Jobim, V. de Moraes de Marcus, N. Gimbel (6:06) -- Tears / D. Reinhardt (3:57)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mack Avenue Records 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ HOTEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: "Loren D. Estleman's most popular characters, PI Amos Walker and hit man Peter Macklin, are together in one story for the first time in Black and White Ball! Detroit hit man Peter Macklin forces private eye Amos Walker to furnish protection for Laurie, Macklin's estranged wife, while Macklin tracks down the party who has threatened to kill her. The man Walker's client suspects cannot be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Estleman 2018Wilson, Gerald.
Contents: Blues on Belle Isle -- Cass tech -- Detroit -- Miss Gretchen -- Before motown -- Detroit River -- Everywhere -- Aram
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mack Avenue Records II LLC 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ WILDetroit Institute of Arts
Summary: Full of colorful photos to satisfy any art enthusiast
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hudson Hills Press, in association with the Founders Society, Detroit Institute of Arts 1985
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709 ONEDetroit Zoological Institute
Summary: At the age of 75, the Detroit Zoo has had a long and fascinating life and has a story to tell-many stories, really-about its beginnings, its struggles and the achievements that today make it one of Michigan's most important resources for education about wildlife and action related to animal conservation and protection.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Detroit Zoological Society 2003