Whose Detroit?: Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City
Heather Ann Thompson examines modern Detroit through the connected histories of politics, labor, and race. Focusing on the forces that shape urban life, Whose Detroit? considers competing claims to power, belonging, and the future of an American city, offering a focused perspective on its contested identity.
About This Book
Whose Detroit? explores the politics, labor movements, and racial dynamics connected to a modern American city.
The book centers Detroit as a place shaped by competing interests and differing visions of urban life.
By bringing politics, labor, and race together, it offers a framework for considering how power and identity influence a city’s development.
Heather Ann Thompson presents a historically grounded examination of the question at the heart of Detroit’s modern story: who has the right to shape the city?
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