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City of Dispossessions - (Politics and Culture in Modern America) by Kyle T Mays (Hardcover)

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  • In July 2013, Detroit became the largest city in U.S. history to declare bankruptcy.
  • About the Author: Kyle T. Mays is Assistant Professor of African American Studies, American Indian Studies, and History at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes: Modernity and Hip Hop in Indigenous North America.
  • 264 Pages
  • History, United States
  • Series Name: Politics and Culture in Modern America

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About the Book



"City of Dispossessions argues that the dispossession of African Americans and Native Americans explains the development of modern US cities, including Detroit. By comparing Black and Indigenous experiences, we gain a better understanding of the histories of race-relations, settler colonialism, and urban development"--



Book Synopsis



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.



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"In this ambitious, comparative history of Indigenous people and African Americans in Detroit, Mays draws on cultural, intellectual, and social history, selectively tracing how this history of dispossession was central to Detroit's development. His goal is to recover the erased histories of both groups and to link that erasure to settler colonialism and racial capitalism...This important study effectively illustrates the processes by which Native Americans and Black Americans were removed from history and stereotyped alongside their efforts to challenge dispossessions."-- "Choice"



About the Author



Kyle T. Mays is Assistant Professor of African American Studies, American Indian Studies, and History at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes: Modernity and Hip Hop in Indigenous North America.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.1 Inches (H) x 6.2 Inches (W) x 1.0 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.1 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 264
Series Title: Politics and Culture in Modern America
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: United States
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Theme: State & Local
Format: Hardcover
Author: Kyle T Mays
Language: English
Street Date: May 24, 2022
TCIN: 91358995
UPC: 9780812253931
Item Number (DPCI): 247-14-3136
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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