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Book Synopsis Remaking Respectability by : Victoria W. Wolcott
Download or read book Remaking Respectability written by Victoria W. Wolcott and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early decades of the twentieth century, tens of thousands of African Americans arrived at Detroit's Michigan Central Station, part of the Great Migration of blacks who left the South seeking improved economic and political conditions in the urban North. The most visible of these migrants have been the male industrial workers who labored on the city's automobile assembly lines. African American women have largely been absent from traditional narratives of the Great Migration because they were excluded from industrial work. By placing these women at the center of her study, Victoria Wolcott reveals their vital role in shaping life in interwar Detroit. Wolcott takes us into the speakeasies, settlement houses, blues clubs, storefront churches, employment bureaus, and training centers of Prohibition- and depression-era Detroit. There, she explores the wide range of black women's experiences, focusing particularly on the interactions between working- and middle-class women. As Detroit's black population grew exponentially, women not only served as models of bourgeois respectability, but also began to reshape traditional standards of deportment in response to the new realities of their lives. In so doing, Wolcott says, they helped transform black politics and culture. Eventually, as the depression arrived, female respectability as a central symbol of reform was supplanted by a more strident working-class activism.
Download or read book Motor City Madam written by Helen McGowan and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Motor City and Me by : Mary Anne McMahon
Download or read book The Motor City and Me written by Mary Anne McMahon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-07-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Highlights the rich history of Detroit and how the Motor City has left an impact on one woman's life. Primarily following McMahon's life and experiences in Detroit, 'The Motor City and Me' tells her story from growing up as a young girl in the city and graduating from the University of Detroit to the beginning of her adult life and eventually moving away. McMahon parallels the rise and fall of Detroit with the ups and downs of her own life and shows readers how the Detroit values strengthened and reassured her throughout difficult times. Tracing her family's lineage through four generations, McMahon aims to give readers a thorought look at the city."--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Madam written by Debby Applegate and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compulsively readable and sometimes jaw-dropping story of the life of a notorious madam who played hostess to every gangster, politician, writer, sports star and Cafe Society swell worth knowing, and who as much as any single figure helped make the twenties roar—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Most Famous Man in America. "A fast-paced tale of … Polly’s many court battles, newspaper headlines, mobster dealings and society gossip…. A breathless tale told through extraordinary research.” —The New York Times Book Review Simply put: Everybody came to Polly's. Pearl "Polly" Adler (1900-1962) was a diminutive dynamo whose Manhattan brothels in the Roaring Twenties became places not just for men to have the company of women but were key gathering places where the culturati and celebrity elite mingled with high society and with violent figures of the underworld—and had a good time doing it. As a Jewish immigrant from eastern Europe, Polly Adler's life is a classic American story of success and assimilation that starts like a novel by Henry Roth and then turns into a glittering real-life tale straight out of F. Scott Fitzgerald. She declared her ambition to be "the best goddam madam in all America" and succeeded wildly. Debby Applegate uses Polly's story as the key to unpacking just what made the 1920s the appallingly corrupt yet glamorous and transformational era that it was and how the collision between high and low is the unique ingredient that fuels American culture.
Book Synopsis Tin House: Candy (Tin House Magazine) by : Holly MacArthur
Download or read book Tin House: Candy (Tin House Magazine) written by Holly MacArthur and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from established authors and new voices alike, the Candy Issue explores those sweet, seductive things we crave, but that might also ruin us. Candy is all sugary, brightly colored, dangerous temptation—from jawbreakers to candy floss. From the comforting and childlike to those desirable things that can easily turn lurid and even destructive.Featuring stories, essays, and poems on appetites and the pursuit of pleasure, the hard edge on something sickly sweet, and the eternal allure of something you can’t quite trust. Candy—everyone wants more than is good for them.
Download or read book Sin City North written by Holly M. Karibo and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early decades of the twentieth century sparked the Detroit-Windsor region's ascendancy as the busiest crossing point between Canada and the United States, setting the stage for socioeconomic developments that would link the border cities for years to come. As Holly M. Karibo shows, this border fostered the emergence of illegal industries alongside legal trade, rapid industrial development, and tourism. Tracing the growth of the two cities' cross-border prostitution and heroin markets in the late 1940s and the 1950s, Sin City North explores the social, legal, and national boundaries that emerged there and their ramifications. In bars, brothels, and dance halls, Canadians and Americans were united in their desire to cross racial, sexual, and legal lines in the border cities. Yet the increasing visibility of illicit economies on city streets—and the growing number of African American and French Canadian women working in illegal trades—provoked the ire of moral reformers who mobilized to eliminate them from their communities. This valuable study demonstrates that struggles over the meaning of vice evolved beyond definitions of legality; they were also crucial avenues for residents attempting to define productive citizenship and community in this postwar urban borderland.
Book Synopsis Motor City Wolf by : David Perlmutter
Download or read book Motor City Wolf written by David Perlmutter and published by Untreed Reads. This book was released on 2011-03-27 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detroit. A tough town, where you have to be tough to survive. And few are tougher in facing the realities of the streets than the Firebird Scouts of Wayne County. But, are they tough enough to deal with the supernatural - in the form of a werewolf aiming to eat them up? A short work from our Spectres line from the author of MURDER'S NOT COOL. For readers ages 13 to adult.
Book Synopsis Manhood on the Line by : Stephen Meyer
Download or read book Manhood on the Line written by Stephen Meyer and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Meyer charts the complex vagaries of men reinventing manhood in twentieth century America. Their ideas of masculinity destroyed by principles of mass production, workers created a white-dominated culture that defended its turf against other racial groups and revived a crude, hypersexualized treatment of women that went far beyond the shop floor. At the same time, they recast unionization battles as manly struggles against a system killing their very selves. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Meyer recreates a social milieu in stunning detail--the mean labor and stolen pleasures, the battles on the street and in the soul, and a masculinity that expressed itself in violence and sexism but also as a wellspring of the fortitude necessary to maintain one's dignity while doing hard work in hard world.
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Book Synopsis Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series by : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1967 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals July - December)
Book Synopsis Motor City Mafia by : Scott M. Burnstein
Download or read book Motor City Mafia written by Scott M. Burnstein and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006-10-16 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motor City Mafia: A Century of Organized Crime in Detroit chronicles the storied and hallowed gangland history of the notorious Detroit underworld. Scott M. Burnstein takes the reader inside the belly of the beast, tracking the bloodshed, exploits, and leadership of the southeast Michigan crime syndicate as never before seen in print. Through a stunning array of rare archival photographs and images, Motor City Mafia captures Detroit's most infamous past, from its inception in the early part of the 20th century, through the years when the iconic Purple Gang ruled the city's streets during Prohibition, through the 1930s and the formation of the local Italian mafia, and the Detroit crime family's glory days in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, all the way to the downfall of the area's mob reign in the 1980s and 1990s.
Book Synopsis Detroit Madam by : Ayanna Williams-jones
Download or read book Detroit Madam written by Ayanna Williams-jones and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ayanna Williams-Jones, a.k.a. Kandi, was only a sixteen-year-old waitress when she'd met a man namedDominic who changed her life forever. He was ten years her senior and came with a dark past thateventually drew Kandi into a swinging lifestyle that she was unprepared for. But just like every otherchallenge Kandi had already faced in her life, she figured out bold, strategic moves that made hersituation work. By using the connections she'd made with ballers, hustlers, celebrities, and even girls insimilar situations like hers, as time progressed, Kandi transformed into the one and only, DetroitMadam.Being the Detroit Madam enabled Kandi to reign supreme in the entertainment industry. Her no-nonsense way of conducting business drove Kandi's Dazzling Entertainment to new levels. Before sheknew it, she had built an entertainment empire with nearly one-hundred beautiful young women whowere trained to turn-up at parties and events for numerous clients across the country. Critics and haterswere at an all-time high, but with Kandi's sharp instincts and hustle mentality, she silenced the noise bypushing forward and monopolizing her business her own way. There was no stopping this show. Itrained big dollars for years, and Kandi's philosophy "if it makes money then it makes sense" was themotto she lived by. Her story is the definition of true survival and unwavering hustle. It exposes danger,betrayal and drug abuse in the entertainment industry. It touches on love, friendship, family, andsatisfies the soul. It breathes life into everything about the Detroit Madam, and her braveness to tell itall concludes with the knowledge and power she still uses, to this very day, to stay on top.
Download or read book Detroit Cars written by Martin Derrick and published by Conran Octopus. This book was released on 1999 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Motor City Rock and Roll by : Bob Harris
Download or read book Motor City Rock and Roll written by Bob Harris and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detroit is famous for its cars and its music. From the 1950s through the 1970s, Motor City fans experienced a golden age of rock and roll. Rock was the defiant voice of the boomer generation. The 1960s and the 1970s were turbulent decades. Blacks and women asserted themselves, breaking down the establishment. Rock music, and the spirit and events that defined it, advanced these interests. The war in Vietnam brought tension and national conflict. Drugs and a sexual revolution, made possible by the introduction of the birth control pill, added to the volatile mix. Woodstock, May Day protests, and the resignation of Pres. Richard Nixon were just a few of the upheavals that made these decades two of the most important in the nation's history. Motor City Rock and Roll: The 1960s and 1970s features 200 images, capturing local musicians who started in Detroit and then traveled the world, as well as world-famous acts who came to the city to perform. Intimate stories of musicians, bands, and other members of the rock community make this history a must for dedicated fans.
Book Synopsis Hoosiers and the American Story by : Madison, James H.
Download or read book Hoosiers and the American Story written by Madison, James H. and published by Indiana Historical Society. This book was released on 2014-10 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A supplemental textbook for middle and high school students, Hoosiers and the American Story provides intimate views of individuals and places in Indiana set within themes from American history. During the frontier days when Americans battled with and exiled native peoples from the East, Indiana was on the leading edge of America’s westward expansion. As waves of immigrants swept across the Appalachians and eastern waterways, Indiana became established as both a crossroads and as a vital part of Middle America. Indiana’s stories illuminate the history of American agriculture, wars, industrialization, ethnic conflicts, technological improvements, political battles, transportation networks, economic shifts, social welfare initiatives, and more. In so doing, they elucidate large national issues so that students can relate personally to the ideas and events that comprise American history. At the same time, the stories shed light on what it means to be a Hoosier, today and in the past.
Download or read book 313 written by John Carlisle (Blogger) and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Since 2007, John Carlisle has fascinated readers with his untold stories of Detroit in his "Detroitblogger John" column for the Metro Times...This collection features dozens of his previously unpublished photographs and forty-two of his most unforgettable stories, including a man who has a strip club in his living room, a bar in a ghost town, a coffee shop for the city's homeless, an art gallery in a mattress store and an old-fashioned debutante ball in the unlikeliest of places." -- back cover.
Download or read book Madam Eve written by Eddrick Dejuan and published by Madam Eve by Eddrick Dejuan. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evelyn divorces her abusive, retired pro-football player husband and starts a male escort service as a way of taking revenge on her best friend's cheating husbands--allowing the women to cheat as well, using their husbands' money. As she trains and molds her first escort Andrew, they fall in love.
Book Synopsis Annual Report of the Department of Labor of the State of Michigan by : Michigan. Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics
Download or read book Annual Report of the Department of Labor of the State of Michigan written by Michigan. Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reports for 1897-1908 include the Report of inspection of factories, 5th-16th.
