Michigan Historical Review 

About: Michigan Historical Review is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Vietnam War & Peninsula. It has an ISSN identifier of 0360-1846. Over the lifetime, 389 publications have been published receiving 3512 citations. The journal is also known as: The Michigan historical review & Mich Hist Rev.

The origins of the urban crisis : race and inequality in postwar Detroit

Abstract: Once America's "arsenal of democracy, " Detroit has become the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's dilemma of racial and economic inequality, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty.

Documents of United States Indian Policy

Abstract: The third edition of this landmark work adds forty new documents, which cover the significant developments in American Indian affairs since 1988. Among the topics dealt with are tribal self-governance, government-to-government relations, religious rights, repatriation of human remains, trust management, health and education, federal recognition of tribes, presidential policies, and Alaska Natives.

Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power

Abstract: A gripping biography of a controversial black activist This biography tells the riveting story of Robert F. Williams (1925-1996). In the late 1950s, as president of the Monroe, North Carolina, NAACP, Williams organized armed resistan to KKK terrorists - in the process challenging not only white supremacists but also Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement. As Radio Free Dixie reveals, however, the civil rights movement and the Black Power movement grew out of the same soil, confronted the same predicaments, and were much closer than traditional portrayals suggest. In the civil rights - era South, independent black politics, black culture pride, and "armed self-reliance" operated in tension and in tandem with legal efforts and nonviolent protests in the quest for African American freedom.

Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream

Abstract: Metropolitan Detroit is home to one of the largest, most diverse Arab communities outside the Middle East, yet the complex world Arabic-speaking immigrants have created there is barely visible on the landscape of ethnic America. In this volume, Nabeel Abraham and Andrew Shryock bring together the work of twenty-five contributors to create a richly detailed portrait of Arab Detroit. The book goes behind the bulletproof glass in Iraqi Chaldean liquor stores. It explores the role of women in a Sunni mosque and the place of nationalist politics in a Coptic church. It follows the careers of wedding singers, Arabic calligraphers, restaurant owners, and pastry chefs. It examines the agendas of Shia Muslim activists and Washington-based lobbyists and looks at the intimate politics of marriage, family honor, and adolescent rebellion. Memoirs and poems by Lebanese, Chaldean, Yemeni, and Palestinian writers anchor the book in personal experience, while over fifty photographs provide a backdrop of vivid, often unexpected, images. In their efforts to represent an ethnic/immigrant community that is flourishing on the margins of pluralist discourse, the contributors to this book break new ground in the study of identity politics, transnationalism, and diaspora cultures.

Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America

Abstract: Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. By Ira Berlin. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 497. Paper, $16.95, ISBN: 0-674-00211-3; cloth, $29.95, ISBN 0-674-81092-9.) From the vantage point of the new millennium, W. E. B. Du Bois's famous prediction of 1903--that the "color line" would be the defining problem of the twentieth century--was all too painfully prescient. He might as well have extended his prediction into the twenty-first century. So thoroughly has racism remained America's bugaboo that scholars have felt a powerful moral urgency in their attempts to understand its tenacious hold on the present by explaining its origins in early America. One of the most enduring debates in colonial historiography regards the nature of the relationship between racism and slavery: how did they arise and which came first, or did they emerge entwined? With Many Thousands Gone, Ira Berlin has written the best overview to date of what we know about the complex origins and development of African slavery in early America and its influence on the development of the idea of race. The product of many years of research and writing, the book' s triumph lies in the author's admirable ability to absorb the massive body of literature on the subject and synthesize it with his own fresh interpretations. Berlin has capitalized better than most on the transformation in slavery studies since the early 1970s. Scholars of early America began to grasp the rich possibilities for pushing beyond the tired images of antebellum cotton plantations to study the emergence of slavery centuries earlier in a vastly different colonial world. Studies multiplied in every direction, including slave-labor economics, African origins and development of African-American cultures, master-slave relations, changes and differentiation in slavery over time and space, and, in a more recent cultural studies vein, the social and historical construction of racial identities. Berlin's book represents an amalgam of all these and more. The book's prologue, "Making Slavery, Making Race," is possibly the most elegant brief summary of the field now going. It conveys Berlin's sense that slavery probably had more to do with the creation of race than the other way around, though he emphasizes that as the two grew and mutated they inescapably transformed each other. Berlin strikes a balance in the recent literature by placing the slaves themselves at the center of the narrative and by showing not only what was done to slaves but also "what they did for themselves" (p. 2). The author's finely crafted language reflects his sensitivity to nuances of the power struggles between master and slave: "The minuet ... when played to the contrapuntal music of paternalism, was a constant, as master and slave continually renegotiated the small space allotted them. But the stylized movements--the staccato gyrations, the seductive feints, the swift withdrawals, and the hateful embraces--represented just one of many dances of domination and subordination, resistance and accommodation" (p. 4). The book's narrative plays out the minuet motif in three parts. In the first, Berlin shows that the dance of master and slave took place in a broad transatlantic and imperial context. He transcends traditional models that focus on British North America and demonstrates how the early North American Spanish, English, French, and Dutch colonies moved from being "societies with slaves" to "slave societies" (p. 10). The first handful of Africans in these settlements, which the author calls the "charter generations" (p. 12), were generally "Atlantic creoles" (p. 17). They were often the mixed-race, multilingual offspring of European traders and African women from the West African coast. Though enslaved, members of the charter generations benefited from the relatively fluid social conditions in the colonies by gaining various legal and ecclesiastical protections, and, occasionally, earning freedom. …