Reading List
Core Texts
Joyce Baugh, The Detroit Busing Case: Milliken v. Bradley and the Controversy over Desegregation (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2011)
Paul R. Diamond, “The Trial of Judge Roth, April to September, 1971) in Beyond Busing: Reflections on Urban Segregation, the Courts, and Equal Opportunity (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005).
Angela Dillard, Faith in the City: Preaching Radical Social Change in Detroit (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007).
Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin, Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2012)
W.B. Hartgrove, “The Story of Mary Louise Moore and Fannie M. Richards,” The Journal of Negro History 1, iss. 1 (Jan. 1916): 23-33.
Leanne Kang, Dismantled: The Breakup of an Urban School System: Detroit 1980-2016 (New York: Teachers College Press, 2020)
Heather Lewis, Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007), selections.
Tiya Miles, Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Bondage and Freedom in the City of Straits (New York: The New Press, 2017), selections.
Milliken v. Bradley, 418 U.S. 717 (1974)
Jeffrey Mirel, The Rise and Fall of an Urban School System: Detroit, 1907-1981, 2nd ed. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999).
Elaine Latzman Moon, Untold Tales, Unsung Heroes Oral Histories: An Oral History of Detroit’s African American Community, 1918-1967 (Detroit: Detroit Urban League, 1993).
Pages from a Black Radical’s Notebook: A James Boggs Reader ed. by Stephen M. Ward (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2011)
People ex rel. Workman v. Board of Education, 18 Mich. 400 (1869), excerpts.
Noliwe Rooks, Cutting School: The Segrenomics of American Education (New York: The New Press, 2020)
James Ryan, Five Miles Away, A World Apart: One City, Two Schools, and the Story of Educational Opportunity in Modern America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).
Thomas J. Sugrue, Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996), selections.
Heather Ann Thompson, Whose Detroit?: Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004)
Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, 2nd ed. (Boston: Beacon Press, 2015), selections.
Supplemental Resources
James Anderson, The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988).
Herb Boyd, Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self-Determination (New York: Amistad, 2017).
Detroit 1967: Origins, Impacts, and Legacies ed. by Joel Stone (Detroit: Painted Turtle Press, 2017)
W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction (New York: Free Press, 1998).
David M. P. Freund, Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America (University of Chicago Press, 2007).
Martha Jones, Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2018).
Kyle T. Mays, City of Dispossession: Indigenous Peoples, African Americans, and the Creation of Modern Detroit (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022).
Muhammad Khalifa, Ty-Ron M. O. Douglas, and Terah Venzant Chambers, “White Gazes of Black Detroit: Milliken v. Bradley I, Postcolonial Theory, and Persistent Inequalities” Teachers College Record 118, iss. 3 (March 2016)
Joseph E. Peniel, Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America (New York: Griffin, 2007).
Brian Purnell and Jeanne Theoharis, The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle outside the South (New York: New York University Press, 2019).
