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Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination

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NAACP Image Award Finalist: “Boyd’s riveting new history…turns an oft-caricatured community into a world of actual, struggling human beings.”—Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and Me

A Michigan Notable Books Honoree

In this book, the author of Baldwin’s Harlem looks at the evolving culture, politics, economics, and spiritual life of Detroit—in “a blend of memoir, love letter, history, and clear-eyed reportage that explores the city’s past, present, and future and its significance to the African American legacy and the nation’s fabric” (Detroit Free Press).

Herb Boyd moved to Detroit in 1943, as race riots were engulfing the city. Though he did not grasp their full significance at the time, this critical moment would be one of many he witnessed that would mold his political activism and exposed a city restless for change. In Black Detroit, he reflects on his life and this landmark place, in search of understanding why Detroit is a special place for black people.

He reveals how Black Detroiters were prominent in the city’s historic, groundbreaking union movement and—when given an opportunity—were among the tireless workers who made the automobile industry the center of American industry. Well-paying jobs on assembly lines allowed working-class Black Detroiters to ascend to the middle class and achieve financial stability, an accomplishment not often attainable in other industries.

Boyd makes clear that while many of these middle-class jobs have disappeared, decimating the population and hitting blacks hardest, Detroit survives thanks to the emergence of companies such as Shinola—which represent the strength of the Motor City and its continued importance to the country. He also brings into focus the major figures who have defined and shaped Detroit, including William Lambert, the great abolitionist, Berry Gordy, the founder of Motown, Coleman Young, the city’s first black mayor, diva songstress Aretha Franklin, Malcolm X, and Ralph Bunche, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

“The characters who walk across Boyd’s pages are fascinating.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Comprehensive and compelling.”—The Washington Post

© 2017 Amistad (Lydbog): 9780062669995
© 2023 Amistad (E-bog): 9780062346643

Release date

Lydbog: 6. juni 2017
E-bog: 21. november 2023

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