Title City of dispossessions : Indigenous peoples, African Americans, and the creation of modern Detroit / Kyle T. Mays

Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 223 pages) : illustrations Series Politics and Culture in Modern America Politics and culture in modern America. Contents Introduction. Dispossession, Detroit! -- The roots of dispossession : from Waawayeyaattanong to Detroit -- Performing dispossession : Detroit's 1901 bicentenary -- Reclaiming Detroit : Blackness and Indigeneity during the age of Fordism -- Citizenship and sovereignty : Black nationalism and Indigenous self-determination -- Black Indigeneity and urban indigenous feminism in postwar Detroit -- Dispossession and the roots of culturally relevant education -- Conclusion. "Where have all the Indians gone?" : the afterlife of dispossession, Detroit Summary In July 2013, Detroit became the largest city in U.S. history to declare bankruptcy. The underlying causes were decades of deindustrialization, white flight, and financial mismanagement. More recently it has been heralded a comeback city as wealthy white residents resettle there. Yet, as Kyle T. Mays argues, we cannot understand the current state of Detroit without also understanding the longer history of Native American and African American dispossession that has defined the city since its founding. How has dispossession impacted the development of modern U.S. cities? And how does comparing the historical experiences of Native Americans and African Americans in an urban context help us comprehend histories of race, sovereignty, and colonialism? Using archives, oral and family histories, and community documents, City of Dispossessions is a cultural, intellectual, and social history that argues that physical and symbolic forms of dispossession of Native Americans and African Americans, and their reactions to dispossession, have been central to Detroit's modern development. The book begins with the first settlement by the Frenchman Cadillac in 1701 and chronicles how the logic of dispossession has continued into the present, through a wide range of forms that include memorialization of the "disappearing Indian," the physical dispossession of African Americans through urban renewal, and gentrification. Mays also chronicles the wide-ranging forms of expression through which Black and Indigenous Detroiters have contested dispossession, such as the Red and Black Power movements and culturally relevant education. Through lively, accessible prose as well as historical and contemporary examples, City of Dispossessions will be of interest to readers of urban studies, Indigenous Studies, and critical ethnic studies Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Indigenous peoples -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History African Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History Indigenous peoples -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Social conditions Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Social conditions African Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Social conditions Settler colonialism -- Michigan -- Detroit HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) Settler colonialism Race relations Indigenous peoples -- Social conditions Indigenous peoples Indians of North America -- Social conditions African Americans -- Social conditions African Americans Indians of North America SUBJECT Detroit (Mich.) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94002942 Detroit (Mich.) -- Race relations -- History Subject Michigan -- Detroit Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780812298543 0812298543

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