The Bankruptcy of Detroit

What Role did Race Play

Bibliographic Data

ID12766252
AuthorsReynolds Farley (University of Michigan, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume14
Issue2
Pages118-137
Publication date2015-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCity and Community (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1535-6841 • E-ISSN: 1540-6040
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1111/cico.12106
OpenAlexW2113168598
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited12

Perhaps no city in the United States has a longer and more vibrant history of racial conflict than Detroit. It is the only city where federal troops have been dispatched to the streets four times to put down racial bloodshed. By the 1990s, Detroit was the quintessential “Chocolate City–Vanilla Suburbs” metropolis. In 2013, Detroit became the largest city to enter bankruptcy. It is an oversimplification and inaccurate to argue that racial conflict and segregation caused the bankruptcy of Detroit. But racial issues were deeply intertwined with fundamental population shifts and employment changes that together diminished the tax base of the city. Consideration is also given to the role continuing racial disparity will play in the future of Detroit after bankruptcy

Bankruptcy · Criminology · Political science · Population · Race (biology · Sociology · Demography · Gender Studies · Housing Market and Economics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies