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A 7 page research paper/essay that offer advice to a student concerning an assignment to write an autobiographical account of race relations in the student’s home community, which, in this case, is Detroit, Michigan). The writer discusses specific questions in terms of sources that address race relations in Detroit, using tutorial language and offering example first-person answers for the student. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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his/her account, the student may find it helpful to include some history of race relations in Detroit. The students essay might begin something like the following. My home town
of Detroit, Michigan began as a small fur trading colony, but as the country pushed westward, the city became known for its manufacturing and this is what drew automotive innovator
Henry Ford to Detroit (Borghi, 2002). Prior to the migration of African Americans northward after the Civil War, the population of Detroit was primarily white. According to Borghi (2002), whites
and blacks "never really got along" and the city has been heavily segregated practically since its inception. The whites living in Detroit resented Ford encouraging a black migration of workers
from the South "coming in and stealing their jobs" (Borghi, 2002). The first full-scale race riot occurred on a hot day in 1943 (Borghi, 2002). Race riots also occurred in
the 1960s and there are remnants of those riots still visible in the city (Borghi, 2002). Today, the city of Detroit is virtually all-black, as 82 percent of the
population living inside the city limits are African American, according to the last census (Borghi, 2002). The whites who work in Detroit live, for the most part, in suburban neighborhoods.
The white exodus from Detroit is truly mind-boggling. There were 1,600,000 white living in Detroit after World War II, and roughly 1,400,000 of this demographic left (Solnit, 2007). Even the
dead leaves, as more than 300 families per year exhume their dead from Detroit cemeteries, as ex-Detroit citizens and their children cut their ties to the city (Solnit, 2007).
However, while the reality of the white exodus is true, it is also true that the last decade has seen race relations in Detroit improving, as there is more integration
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