Managing inequality Northern racial liberalism in interwar Detroit

"In the wake of the Civil War, many white Northern leaders supported race-neutral laws and anti-discrimination statutes. These positions helped amplify the distinctions they drew between their political economic system, which they saw as forward-thinking in its promotion of free market capitali...

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Autor principal: Miller, Karen R. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press 2014.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • African American Migration and the Emerging Discourse of Northern Racial Liberalism
  • Protecting Urban Peace : Northern Racial Liberalism and the Limits of Racial Equality
  • Between Ossian Sweet and the Great Depression : Tolerance and Northern Racial Liberal Discourse in the Late 1920s
  • "Living Happily at the Taxpayers' Expense" : City Managers, African American "Freeloaders," and White Taxpayers
  • "Let Us Act Funny" : Snow Flake Grigsby and Civil Rights Liberalism in the 1930s
  • Northern Racial Liberalism and Detroit's Labor Movement
  • "Better Housing Makes Better Citizens" : Slum Clearance and Low-Cost Housing.