SOCIOL 4SS3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Detroit Free Press, Michigan Historical Review, Symbolic Interactionism
18 Dec 2019
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The ruins of detroit: exploring the urban crisis in the motor city. This article compares varying theories discussing the origins and exercise of racial tensions found in detroit from deindustrialization as well as political and communal leadership from the 1930s to 1990s. They follow a timeline starting with the golden-age of post-war economic development and beginnings of work-related racial conflict, cold war industrial crises, and corporate relocation (boyle, 2001, p. 110). Specifically, boyle analyzes how the crisis, which catalyzed in the 1960s and 1970s, has continued to shape detroit"s national image of urban desolation, decay, and corporate power. This article can be used in collaboration with jansen"s discussion of interpretation of crises (2014), by providing an alternative and in-depth timeline for desolation. Importantly, the authors discuss how stereotyping in academic and public analyses of detroit have hindered accurate understanding of its situation.
