The Bankruptcy of Detroit

What Role did Race Play

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12766252
AutoresReynolds Farley (University of Michigan, autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Volume14
Fascículo2
Páginas118-137
Data de publicação2015-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCity and Community (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1535-6841 • E-ISSN: 1540-6040
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1111/cico.12106
OpenAlexW2113168598
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12
Referências citadas12

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