Whose Detroit? Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City. By Heather Ann Thompson. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 295. $29.95.
本书以底特律为案例，分析20世纪后期美国北方工业城市中种族冲突、劳工变迁与政治经济转型的相互作用，揭示城市衰败的深层原因。
By the mid-1980s, the city of Detroit had become an icon in U.S. urban history. Many saw it as the most extreme example of what went wrong in Northern industrial cities in the late twentieth century. The sequence of events is well known: the rapid influx of African American migrants from the South, combative reaction from the white community, civil unrest culminating in the 1967 riot, white flight, the loss of manufacturing jobs, and the development of a desperately poor, socially alienated, primarily black underclass. Other cities experienced similar events, but Detroit's descent was certainly among the most dramatic.