{"product_id":"demolishing-detroit-nicholas-l-caverly-9781503640252","title":"Demolishing Detroit: How Structural Racism Endures","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow infrastructural systems--buildings, laws, algorithms, excavators, regulations, toxins--maintain white supremacy within the urban landscape\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor decades, Detroit residents, politicians, planners, and advocacy organizations have campaigned for the elimination of empty buildings from city neighborhoods. Leveling these structures, many argue, is essential to making space for Detroit's majority-Black populace to flourish in the wake of white flight and deindustrialization. In 2013, the city set out to demolish more than twenty thousand empty buildings by the end of the decade, with administrators suggesting it would offer an innovative model for what other American cities could do to combat the effects of racist disinvestment. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research with city residents, demolition workers, and public officials, as well as analyses of administrative archives, \u003ci\u003eDemolishing Detroit\u003c\/i\u003e examines the causes, procedures, and consequences of empty-building demolitions in Detroit. Contrary to stated goals of equity, the book reveals how racism and intersecting inequities endured despite efforts to level them.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs calls to dismantle racist systems have become increasingly urgent, this book provides cautionary tales of urban transformations meant to combat white supremacy that ultimately reinforced inequality. Bridging political analyses of racial capitalism, infrastructures, and environments in cities, Nick Caverly grapples with the reality that tearing down unjust policies, ideologies, and landscapes is not enough to end racist disparities in opportunities and life chances. Doing so demands rebuilding systems in the service of reparative futures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nicholas L. Caverly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1503640256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781503640252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/02\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Nicholas L. Caverly","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46825949266175,"sku":"9781503640252","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9e806ea1-98a1-4ec8-b551-3c951e8402f3.jpg?v=1746074114","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/demolishing-detroit-nicholas-l-caverly-9781503640252","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}