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African Americans Michigan Detroit Social conditions 21st century Detroit (Mich.) Economic conditions Detroit (Mich.) Politics and government Detroit (Mich.) Race relations Detroit (Mich.) Social conditions Detroit (Mich.) Social conditions 21st century Generation Y Biography Michigan Detroit Urban renewal Michigan Detroit Working class whites Michigan Detroit BiographyArnaud, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 ARNChardavoyne, David G.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.66 CHALeDuff, Charlie.
Summary: An expose of bureaucratic corruption and systemic arson in Detroit traces the author's work with a local fire brigade and his investigations into the daily lives of politicians, police officials, and others who are working to save the troubled city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 0000
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI South LeDuffKinney, Rebecca J.
Summary: "The first book to analyze how contemporary ideas of Detroit circulate in popular culture in order to map the extension of the mythology of the frontier in American culture. Kinney analyzes a cross-section of twentieth and twenty first century cultural locations--an internet web forum, architectural photography, advertising and commercial culture, documentary film, and print and online...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 KINLoomis, Bill.
Summary: "A journalistic account of how Detroit's foodways are playing a key role in the city's revitalization"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Detroit's story has encapsulated the iconic narrative of America over the last century: the Great Migration of African Americans escaping Jim Crow; the rise of manufacturing and the middle class; the love affair with automobiles; the flowering of the American dream; and now, the collapse of the economy and the fading American mythos. With its vivid, painterly palette and haunting score,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Video 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DETChafets, Ze'ev.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 305.896 CHAZadoorian, Michael
Summary: "Joe Keen and Ana Urbanek have been a couple for a long time, with all the requisite lulls and temptations, yet they remain unmarried and without children or a mortgage, as their Midwestern values (and parents) seem to require. Now on the cusp of forty, they are both working at jobs that they're not even sure they believe in anymore, but with significantly varying returns. Ana is successful,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZADKenyon, Amy Maria.
Contents: Rumors from a motel in Detroit -- Mapping postwar space and culture -- Spaces of detachment -- Critiques of suburban conformity -- Everyday life and suburban estrangement -- The city that would not go away -- Postwar space and culture in context.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENLasser, Scott.
Summary: After losing his son and divorcing his wife, a Detroit native returns home after twenty-five years and becomes involved with the sister of his murdered high school girlfriend as he tries to put back the pieces of his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LASWilliams, Rachel Marie-Crane
Summary: "In the heat of June in 1943, a wave of destructive and deadly civil unrest took place in the streets of Detroit. The city was under the pressures of both war-time industrial production and the nascent civil rights movement - a powder keg waiting to go off. Thirty-four people were killed, most were Black, and over half were killed by police. Two thousand people were arrested and over 700...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 WILPhilp, Drew
Summary: "A young writer's sincere search (with his dog) for an authentic life--buying a ruined house in Detroit for $500, fixing it up nail by nail, and, in the process, participating in the grassroots rebirth of the city itself."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017