Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera on Belle Isle, Detroit, 1932. Interesting dynamic. The Great Depression in full swing during the creation of the Detroit Industry murals at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA).
Starting on Belle Isle on a hot Sunday in June, the 1943 Detroit Riots ended with thirty-four people reported killed. American-on-American violence during the Second World War.
"Detroit Moan"*
Two big flags at half-staff frozen
Neon sign reads OPEN
Cracked snow.
*Erik Donald France, 2/1/07; title from Victoria Spivey song, 1936
Today's Rune: Protection.
Birthdays: Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Susan Brownmiller (b.1935).
Hasta La Vista!
Neon sign reads OPEN
Cracked snow.
*Erik Donald France, 2/1/07; title from Victoria Spivey song, 1936
Today's Rune: Protection.
Birthdays: Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Susan Brownmiller (b.1935).
Hasta La Vista!
2 comments:
A book you might be interested to read-- Arnold Hirsch's "Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960." The book started as answer to the question of why there were relatively few race riots in urban America from 1940-1960. His answer? There were, and the big city powers got the media to underreport them. The book is an examination of how big city mayors like Daley were able to use the power the federal government gave them over use of urban renewal and public housing funds to increase segregation in big cities, often destroying thriving working and middle class black neighborhoods. It ties in with Theodore Lowi's essay "Iron City USA" which examined the same phenomenon in "Iron City," which was Pittsburg. You can find the Lowi article in his book "The End of Liberalism."
Love the photos, especially the first one.
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