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Detroit's racial, religious, and economic problems through the experiences of black intellectuals, police officers, Muslim and Christian clerics, middle-class suburban whites, and Mayor Coleman Young
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Ze’ev Chafets is the author of eight works of nonfiction and four novels. He was born in Pontiac, Michigan, and now lives in New York City.
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Written by a native son of "Murder Capital, U.S.A.," who, like the majority of white Detroiters, high-tailed it out of town after the 1967 race riot (in Chafets's case, to Israel), this tour of "the first major Third World city" in America is an enormously unsettling read and a tragically accurate picture of a dying metropolis. Through personal observation and interviews with local citizens and officials, Chafets ( Members of the Tribe ) captures the social and emotional hopelessness that has taken hold in the Motor City, best evidenced by "Devil's Night"--an unofficial, regional holiday (on the night before Halloween) that has evolved from an evening of childish pranks (i.e. soaping windows) into a psychotic festival of burning down houses. Equally unnerving is the author's penchant for sweeping generalizations ("the redneck suburbs") and his tendancy to shy away from tougher issues such as the root causes of the city's problems. Granted an extremely rare interview with Detroit's controversial mayor, Coleman Young, Chafets fails to ask hard-hitting questions, leaving this work fairly sensationalistic.
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- PublisherRandom House
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0394585259
- ISBN 13 9780394585253
- BindingHardcover
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- Number of pages240
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