Todd C Shaw

Now Is the Time!

Detroit Black Politics and Grassroots Activism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines African American grassroots activism in Detroit from 1973 to the present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780822344957
• ISBN-10: 0822344955
• Artikelnr.: 26553296

Autorenporträt

Todd Shaw is Assistant Professor of Political Science and African American Studies at the University of South Carolina.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. The Right Tactic, Time, and Place 1
Part I. From Black Politics to Grassroots Protest
1. Making Black Activism Matter 13
Part II. Black Grassroots Activism and Accountability in Detroit, 1933–1993
2. Where are the People? Early Black Housing Poverty and Grassroots
Activism 39
3. Trading Activism: The Young Regime and the Context of Black Politics 64
4. Picking Up Spears: The Timing and Utility of Renewed Activism 85
5. Holding Them Responsible: Community Development Activism 106
6. Now Is the Time!: Public Housing and Anti-Homelessness Activism 133
Part III. Black Grassroots Activism after Young and beyond Detroit,
1993–2005
7. A Change is Gonna Come? The Archer Regime and Housing Politics beyond
Detroit 163
Epilogue. More than a Drop: The Visions of Black Grassroots Activism 191
Appendix 1 197
Appendix 2 201
Notes 209
Bibliography 245
Index 279