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Demolishing Detroit: How Structural Racism Endures

Demolishing Detroit: How Structural Racism Endures

Caverly, Nicholas L.

Hardcover

AnthropologyGeneral Sociology

Publisher Price: $28.00

ISBN10: 1503640256
ISBN13: 9781503640252
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: Dec 2 2025
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Innovative field work reveals how infrastructural systems--buildings, laws, algorithms, excavators, regulations, toxins--maintain white supremacy within the urban landscape

For decades, Detroit residents, politicians, planners, and advocacy organizations have campaigned for the elimination of empty buildings from city neighborhoods. Leveling these structures, many argue, is essential to making space for Detroit's majority-Black populace to flourish in the wake of white flight and deindustrialization. In 2013, the city set out to demolish more than twenty thousand empty buildings by the end of the decade, with administrators suggesting it would offer an innovative model for what other American cities could do to combat the effects of racist disinvestment. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research with city residents, demolition workers, and public officials, as well as analyses of administrative archives, Demolishing Detroit examines the causes, procedures, and consequences of empty-building demolitions in Detroit. Contrary to stated goals of equity, the book reveals how racism and intersecting inequities endured despite efforts to level them.

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