The first source, The Populists Persuasion: An American History by Micheal Kazin, helped explain the politics of the working class during this time. Furthermore, Self uses Fred Stripp’s The Treatment of Negro-American Workers and Albert S. Broussard’s Black San Francisco: The Struggle for Racial Equality in the West, effectively to describe the unfair treatment African Americans were subjected to in the workplace and housing market compared to their white
By the end of the eighteenth century, Cangany’s research shows that Detroit found itself becoming capable of surviving as a global
In his Book, Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor, Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, explains that in the early-nineties while doing field work in the Southside of Chicago he gravitated to a predominantly working-poor black community near his field site (ix). Venkatesh describes the ten-squared block community as being in disrepair very much like the high-rises that were being torn down in the surrounding area (iv). In the presence of some “greystones” and “brownstones” Venkatesh noticed vacant lots, beat-up homes, and what he perceived to be inadequate city involvement in the community -streets need fixing, and trash pick-up was lacking (x). There were also closed storefronts and burned-out buildings in the area (Venkatesh, 92).
The text, Scraping By, by Seth Rockman is unique in the fact that the prosperous city of Baltimore in the 1800’s and the wealthy elites that reside in it are more or less exposed. Rockman examines the city from the rock bottom. Historians and textbooks often exclude the main ideas and arguments of this book. Baltimore falsely claimed all who worked hard had the chance to be successful. The actual reality was that the impoverished working-class had a minute opportunity to change hard labor from a career into only a stage in their life; impossible might be a better word to describe their opportunities to thrive and prosper.
From riots to invasions, many urban problems arose during the late 19th and 20th centuries. Technology was improving and it was making jobs easier and more productive but American’s were tired and weren’t working. Wage cuts were becoming more popular and economically, the U.S was falling apart slowly. Despite the problems, Americans discovered a way to replace the exhausted Americans who no longer took part in labor. Immigrants from Europe were pulled to New York in hope to find what the Americans had said they’d offer.
The city of Newark is an area of high achievements ,enormous growth and the cornerstone to one of the nation’s most important east coast cities. Despite its economic importance, the city of Newark carries a negative perception which overlooks its long history of struggle and hardship. Throughout the 20th century, a negative attitudes developed in and outside of Newark for its substandard working conditions. With the quality of these conditions so low, outsiders usually tend to formulate a negative perspective towards the city without considering the huge the city’s struggles with racism, discrimination, immigration and poverty. Poor labor conditions delayed the transformation of this city; people in Newark were not given the proper care to
Detroit, was founded on July 24th 1701, was the largest city of the Michigan State and known as the world 's automotive center. However, on 18th July 2013, the city Detroit filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy with $18.5 billion in debt which is the largest municipal bankruptcy in United States history. As it is defined by the United States Court (2014),” Chapter 9 is the Bankruptcy Code provides for reorganization of municipalities, which include cities and towns, as well as villages, counties, taxing districts, municipal utilities, and school districts.” Moreover, there were thousands of retirees and other creditors and abandoned buildings with crumbling infrastructure and services. Over 60% of the population moved out the city.
John Sides’ LA City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present focuses on the migration of southern African Americans to the west between the early 1900’s and the 1970’s. Although there was a great migration of Southern African Americans to the north, there was more of an impact on African American lives in western cities like Los Angeles. Sides claims that the migration of southern African Americans was due to their desire to escape the bigotry and injustices that they faced in the southern states. Los Angeles was one of the many cities that provided hope for the southern African Americans to escape their prior social and economic conditions. While life in Los Angeles was better than the lives that the southern
Neighborhoods want to be prosperous and not discriminated against in America. 12. “Sundown Towns” has written by Dr. James W. Loewen and was about the explosive story of radical exclusion
First to Fourth World I. The Author The author of “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American city” is none other than Matthew Desmond. Demond serves as the John Langeloth Loeb Associate Professor of Social Sciences at Harvard University. Also, the director of the Judice and Poverty Project.
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth is a documentary that explores public housing in Saint Louis, Missouri, in particular the history of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex. Pruitt-Igoe was a public housing project billed as the perfect solution in the early 1950s, to solve the problems of slums in Saint Louis and to bring people back into a city that had seen a population decline from previous years. Saint Louis was an ageing city desperate to regain their postwar prominence as a bustling city, but faced many challenges pertaining to the racial makeup of the segregated city and the loss of many jobs to suburban areas. Many whites had begun to participate in what is now referred to as “white flight”, or the migration of middle class whites to
According to William Julius Wilson in When Jobs Disappear the transition from the institutional/Communal Ghetto to the Jobless/Dark Ghetto was driven by economic transformations in American from the late 1960’s to the 1990’s. While for Logic Waquant in Urban Outsiders, thought the economic factors were significant; the political factors were more impact. William Julius Wilson most studied about south side of Chicago it’s a classical example of inner city its wasn’t like before in the 1960’s it’s was a community and by the late 70’s the community was gone. According to Wilson, even though it’s was gone the community was not even a wealth community its was a poor community the majority member of that community where indeed Black American
The graphic novel of Tiger Lung revolves around a shaman named Tiger Lung. It is known that individuals become shamans when they embark on a spiritual journey/quest. This is what allows them to develop the connection they have with spirits and other supernatural forces. Throughout the graphic novel, there are many examples that demonstrate how Tiger Lung performs numerous actions and demonstrate knowledge that are similar to a shaman. Shamans are the only individuals who are able to interact and to fight with spirits.
The Impact of the Detroit Race Riot on Society Just imagine you are in the streets of Detroit in 1967. There are fires blazing all around you, people are being shot ruthlessly and police are using heavy force to stop the rioters. That is how the people of Detroit felt during one of the most deadly events in Detroit history. Some people even thought it was the start of a second revolution, This is a quote from Jeffrey Eugenides. “ In Detroit, in July of 1967,what happened was no less than a guerrilla uprising.
In 1972 an article was written during a major change in American history, Poverty became an issue due to the hands of big businesses. This article describes two characters playing in an intense game of Monopoly. As they are playing, John Mcphee switches settings in order to explains the dramatic highs and lows of Atlantic City. Before Atlantic City’s downfall, billionaire entrepreneurs built massive businesses and Atlantic city became a playground for adults. During this time, the ‘American Dream’ was perceived as being rich and wealthy to no end.
