Detroit: Race Riots, Racial Conflicts, and Efforts to Bridge the Racial Divide

Contents

Contents List of Tables ix Acknowledgments xiii Preface xv Chapter 1. Historical Causes and Consequences of the 1967 Civil Disorder: White Racism, Black Rebellion, and Changing Race Relations in the Post–Civil Disorder Era 1 Chapter 2. Conflict between the Black Community and White Police: Before and after the 1967 Civil Disorder 29 Chapter 3. Racial Conflict over School Desegregation 67 Chapter 4. Racial Conflict over Employment Discrimination 81 Chapter 5. The Emergence of Black Political Power after 1967: Impact of the Civil Disorders on Race Relations in Metropolitan Detroit 93 Chapter 6. City and Suburban Conflict over Residential Sharing of Neighborhoods 137 Chapter 7. The Declining Auto Industry and Anti-Asian Racism: The Murder of Vincent Chin 155 Chapter 8. African American and Middle Eastern American Relations after 1967 181 Chapter 9. Old Minority and New Minority: Black-Latino Relations in a Predominantly Black City 199 Chapter 10. Economic Restructuring, Black Deprivation, and the Problem of Drugs and Crime 221 Chapter 11. Measuring the Racial Divides in Metropolitan Detroit 239 Chapter 12. Interracial Cooperation and Bridge Building in the Postriot Era 265 Chapter 13. Alternative Futures for Residents of Detroit 297 Appendix. Method of Computation of the Index of Dissimilarity 319 References 321 Index 341 ...