{"product_id":"whose-detroit-heather-ann-thompson-9781501745614","title":"Whose Detroit?: Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Thompson's engrossing book is essential for any collection on the history, politics, or society of post-World War II America.\"\u003c\/b\u003e― \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhose Detroit?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, Heather Ann Thompson focuses in detail on the African American struggles for full equality and equal justice under the law that shaped the Motor City during the 1960s and 1970s. Even after Great Society liberals committed themselves to improving conditions in Detroit, Thompson argues, poverty and police brutality continued to plague both neighborhoods and workplaces. Frustration with entrenched discrimination and the lack of meaningful remedies not only led black residents to erupt in the infamous urban uprising of 1967, but it also sparked myriad grassroots challenges to postwar liberalism in the wake of that rebellion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith deft attention to the historical background and to the dramatic struggles of Detroit's residents, and with a new prologue that argues for the ways in which the War on Crime and mass incarceration also devastated the Motor City over time, Thompson has written a biography of an entire nation at a time of crisis.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Heather Ann Thompson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501745611\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501745614\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.88d","brand":"Heather Ann Thompson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43935205490943,"sku":"9781501745614","price":53.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_fa6bed55-f48f-4a82-8015-f8e87e29634b.jpg?v=1681418469","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/whose-detroit-heather-ann-thompson-9781501745614","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}