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… The most successful metropolitan regions get together to solve common issues. Detroit is not one of those regions, he says
NY Times: “Their Detroit coverage is dodgy…The riots keep coming up.”
Sugrue: “It hardens the mentality of us versus them. We get to say..’Look what they have done.’,’” . He’s describing when former Detroiter’s go back to a now black neighborhood and see the physical decline.
“Separate hostile and unequal,” is how he describes the situation.
Sugure saying: The policies supporting this date back decades. any racially-mixed neighborhood- meaning the presence of a single African American home – meant a downgrading of the neighborhood by real estate companies, banks, etc. In the 40s’ and the 60’s, some 200 white home-owners groups formed in Metro Detroit to keep neighborhoods segregated.
All of [...]
.. between 1947 and 1963, Sugrue said. Well, before globalization. The Packard plant, which made the cover of Time, closed in 1957.
.. are often the auto factory jobs delegated to African Americans, Sugrue saying. At Dodge and Chrysler, in certain plants, they often took jobs called “man-killers,” he’s saying
“All three of them occurred simultaneously… devastating effects,” Sugrue says
Sugrue is saying:
“To understand Detroit, we need to go back and reconstruct the city’s past. Recognize that nearly all the policies..we’ve made about our city… rests upon how we interpret our past.”
If you’re a fan of seminal work “Origins of the Urban Crisis,” you’d be a pig in mud here at the Our Detroit Story event this a.m…. Detroit historian Thomas Sugrue is here, and talking about the neighborhood where he grew up, in a west side neighborhood over by Livernois.
Right now, he’s talking about the [...]
