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Radical History Review (2012) 2012 (114): 191–205.
Published: 01 October 2012
... 2011, theater director Niegel Smith led Total Detroit , a walk that encompassed fifty-seven hours, beginning and ending at LaGuardia Airport. As a performance, Total Detroit rehearsed Smith's ideas about walking and social meaning. This interview with Shalom and Smith was conducted one week after...
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Radical History Review (1997) 1997 (69): 46–75.
Published: 01 October 1997
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Radical History Review (2017) 2017 (129): 164–176.
Published: 01 October 2017
...Rebecca J. Kinney This essay analyzes the ways that the “tourist gaze” and the “development gaze” overlap in the neoliberal gentrification of Detroit. It situates Shinola Detroit's corporate branding as an extension of the tourist gaze, a way for tourist consumers to experience the city through...
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Radical History Review (2000) 2000 (78): 178–188.
Published: 01 October 2000
... of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postzuar Detroit (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996). Jefferson Cowie, Capital Moves: RCA’s 70-Year Qidest for Cheap Labor (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999). Judith Stein, Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economic...
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Radical History Review (2017) 2017 (128): 173–198.
Published: 01 May 2017
.... Thompson . Detroit Free Press . 1950 . “A New Migrant Problem.” June 8 . ———. 1950 . “Puerto Ricans Excel as Help in Beet Fields: Planes Fly In Eager, Law-Abiding Workers.” June 19 . ———. 1950 . “Airlines' Sugar Beet Shuttle Hauls 5,000 Without a Spill.” June 20 . ———. 1950...
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Radical History Review (1993) 1993 (55): 7–31.
Published: 01 January 1993
... an interest in Malcolm Little, a young ex-con who worked as a grinder in a Detroit truck factory, and was an advocate of a “cult,Nthe Nation of Islam (NOI) in his free time. Nation members, according to an FBI statement, considered themselves to be “citizens of Islam .. . a fictitious coun- try...
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Radical History Review (2005) 2005 (93): 186–191.
Published: 01 October 2005
...-Murolo.indd 188188 88/8/05/8/05 12:02:0712:02:07 PMPM Murolo | Antecedents of the Northern Command 189 black rebellion in Detroit in 1967. The following year, federal troops deployed in the aftermath...
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Radical History Review (2013) 2013 (116): 147–158.
Published: 01 May 2013
... of public activists, it is expected to sur- face again as a quick fix to the city’s financial woes. Similar motions are taking place behind closed doors in Chicago. The city of Highland Park, just outside Detroit, privatized its municipal water source with disastrous results for city residents; some...
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Radical History Review (2013) 2013 (116): 189–195.
Published: 01 May 2013
... this question, the film explores the trials of a Bolivian family in the sprawl­ ing, nearly all-­indigenous city of El Alto, on the altiplano above the capital of La Paz; a woman in Detroit, Michigan, whose water was cut off by the city due to unpaid bills; farmers in India facing declining water tables...
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Radical History Review (2005) 2005 (93): 107–110.
Published: 01 October 2005
... repatriation when rounding up the Mexican population. Chicago, Detroit, Denver, and other American cities joined Los Angeles in naming their campaigns with a euphemism. The procedure was also praised as a way to ensure that jobs would become available for “real...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (146): 105–119.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., Black people, and other subaltern sectors of society held the key to building a world beyond capitalism. Lee’s political and theoretical work unfolded in Chicago, New York, and eventually Detroit, where she moved in 1953 and met James Boggs. Born in 1919 in Marion Junction, Alabama, Boggs was raised...
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Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (126): 71–83.
Published: 01 October 2016
... that the squads in Detroit had disbanded when the “women decided that this approach was not a very practical one in terms of the time and emotional energy expended.”21 They further reported that on the West Coast all-­women street patrols that tried to apprehend rapists who police had failed to arrest...
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Radical History Review (1984) 1984 (28-30): 206–216.
Published: 01 May 1984
..., a tour participant, has joined us in planning publicity and expansion of our activities. The idea of a “People’s Bus Tour” was neither new nor unique to this city. Mindful of the Detroit Union Town walking tour project and similar efforts elsewhere and also aware of a growing body...
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Radical History Review (2009) 2009 (103): 188–202.
Published: 01 January 2009
.... Opened in Detroit’s Midtown neighborhood in 1997, the Wright Museum of African American History has since mounted two core exhibitions that have proven contested sites for the representation of blackness.16 The response to these shows — Of the People: The African American Experience and And Still...
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Radical History Review (2012) 2012 (114): 1–5.
Published: 01 October 2012
... urban space, sponsored Total Detroit, a 57 – hour tour-­interrogation of urban history and memory. Shalom and Smith discuss Autry and Walkowitz | Editors’ Introduction   5 their creation of a sensory and conceptual tour of Detroit rooted in the participatory...
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Radical History Review (2009) 2009 (103): 187.
Published: 01 January 2009
... H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit.  — Conor McGrady Radical History Review Issue 103 (Winter 2009) © 2009 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc. 187 ...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (145): 62–83.
Published: 01 January 2023
... and Busby , 1984 . James C. L. R. “ The Caribbean Confrontation Begins .” Race Today 2 , no. 9 ( 1970 ): 311 – 14 . James C. L. R. The Gathering Forces . Detroit and London : Facing Reality Publishing Committee , 1967 . James C. L. R. A History of Pan-African Revolt...
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Radical History Review (1991) 1991 (50): 183–189.
Published: 01 May 1991
... 1980s. “The Time Has Come” (1964-65) looks at Black Power and black nationalism by examining the careers of Malcolm X and tracing SNCC‘s transition from civil rights to Black Power. ’Two Societies” (1965-68) focuses on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s campaign in Chicago and the Detroit Rebellion...
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Radical History Review (1977) 1977 (14-15): 160–194.
Published: 01 May 1977
.... Frank Marquart, in his autobiography, describes the hardships of growing up in Detroit in the open shop years of the first part of the century. Contact with a lively radical community, inside and outside the factory, won him over to socialism and later to member• ship in the Socialist Party...
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Radical History Review (2002) 2002 (82): 37–64.
Published: 01 January 2002
... for Autonomous Social Action-General Brotherhood of Workers), a socialist-led group based among Mexicano workers. Fueled by the intersection of class exploitation and racial oppression, a vibrant radical current took root among black workers in Detroit. On May 2, 1968, a group of black activists...