"Detroit Lives" tells the story of a city fighting for survival. Robert Mast's interviews with numerous Detroit activists and observers depict people from all walks of life who share a common commitment to the rejuvenation of their home. Despite a mass exodus from the city of over 800,000 citizens and more than 70 percent of business and industry over the last 40 years, Detroit's activists continue to organize, to demonstrate, to speak out, and to lend one another support. The compilation of these interviews provides an exchange of ideas between progressives who were and are deeply involved in the multitude of struggles for equality and liberation, from the 1930s through the 1990s. Their stories highlight the contributions and resourcefulness of working class and minorities, the struggles of women, the role of the clergy, the African American experience, and the battle to maintain quality education and social services. Represented is the collective body of Detroit progressives including city and suburban dwellers, writers, lawyers, city officials, professors, union members, clergy, housing and welfare reformers, racial activists, and community organizers. Author note: Robert H. Mast is Coordinator of the Pittsburgh Oral History Project and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at Clarion University in Pennsylvania.
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"Only the numbest reader of these pages will fail to see the relationship of the urban realities herein explicated so poignantly to those that flamed so fiercely in Los Angeles in 1992. Given that context, no one should be shocked at the radical elements in the thought of these activists from so many diverse background, perspectives, and generations. To deal radically means to go to the root of things, the origins, the fundamentals. These Detroit voices insist that the problems of urban Americans have become so grave that nothing less will suffice."
—Dan Georgakas
—Dan Georgakas
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A story of spirit, growth, and survival in a city that reflects America's urban problems
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Illuminating,
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This review is from: Detroit Lives (Conflicts In Urban & Regional) (Hardcover)
Having dove straight into reading this book, I initially thought it would be a sort of textbook analysis of Detroit and a sort of outline on "what went wrong". While I would have had no problem with such a book, what I got instead was to my pleasant surprise. There is a short analysis of the subject of each chapter as a sort of introduction to the first-hand accounts of people who lived or are exemplary in some way of the subject of each chapter. Everybody seems to have incredible positive energy that re-interpreted for me the harsh conditions of Detroit. Instead of a cold, distant analysis of the history of "bad things that happened", it was enjoyably inspiring as it informed me. While not the same as going to Detroit and talking to people, this book is perhaps the closest you'll come.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Good overview of progressive forces in 60's, 70's Detroit.,
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This review is from: Detroit Lives (Conflicts in Urban and Regional Development) (Paperback)
Bob Mast was clearly involved in the progressive labor and civil rights struggle in the 70's or earlier in Detroit. His interviews with various others involved in the progressive struggle attempt to determine what went right, what went wrong, and where are those people now?
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