Kyle T Mays

City of Dispossessions

Indigenous Peoples, African Americans, and the Creation of Modern Detroit

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"City of Dispossessions argues that the dispossession of African Americans and Native Americans explains the development of modern US cities, including Detroit. By comparing Black and Indigenous experiences, we gain a better understanding of the histories of race-relations, settler colonialism, and urban development"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780812253931
• ISBN-10: 0812253930
• Artikelnr.: 62186386

Autorenporträt

Kyle T. Mays is Assistant Professor of African American Studies, American Indian Studies, and History at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes: Modernity and Hip Hop in Indigenous North America.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction. Dispossession, Detroit!
Chapter 1. The Roots of Dispossession: From Waawayeyaattanong to Detroit
Chapter 2. Performing Dispossession: Detroit's 1901 Bicentenary
Chapter 3. Reclaiming Detroit: Blackness and Indigeneity During the Age of
Fordism
Chapter 4. Citizenship and Sovereignty: Black Nationalism and Indigenous
Self-Determination
Chapter 5. Black Indigeneity and Urban Indigenous Feminism in Postwar
Detroit
Chapter 6. Dispossession and the Roots of Culturally Relevant Education
Conclusion. "Where Have All the Indians Gone?" The Afterlife of
Dispossession, Detroit
Notes
Index
Acknowledgements