Assignment: Chapter 3    Posting Deadline: Thursday, January 30

Reading: Chapter 3: “The Coffin of Peace”: The Containment of Public Housing

Questions: 

1.   Were the groups advocating public housing in Detroit successful in achieving development of public housing? Were they successful in achieving racially integrated public housing? How or why not?

2.   What does Sugrue mean when he says there is a conflict between the two strains in New Deal Housing policy?

Source for Questions: Charles Brown, “[Marxism-Thaxis] Study Guide: Origins of the Urban Crisis.” Retrieved Jan 11, 2009.  http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism-thaxis/2009-January/023574.html

  

Assignment - Deadline: Thursday, January 23

A. Post two paragraphs inspired by the study guide questions/thoughts for the week

B.  Post two separate comments to one or more of your colleagues reacting to their paragraphs.  

Assignment: Chapter 2    Posting Deadline: Thursday, January 23

Reading: Chapter 2: “Detroit’s Time Bomb”: Race and Housing in the 1940s

Question: 

Source for Questions: Charles Brown, “[Marxism-Thaxis] Study Guide: Origins of the Urban Crisis.” Retrieved Jan 11, 2009.  http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism-thaxis/2009-January/023574.html

How was access to housing of the 1940s affected by:

1.     Attitudes of white homeowners

2.     Institutional practices

3.     Government practices, policies and programs

  

Assignment - Deadline: Thursday, January 23

A. Post two paragraphs inspired by the study guide questions/thoughts for the week

B.  Post two separate comments to one or more of your colleagues reacting to their paragraphs.  

Assignment: Introduction & Chapter 1 Posting Deadline: Thursday, January 16

Readings: Introduction & Chapter 1: Arsenal of Democracy

Questions: 

Source for Questions: Charles Brown, “[Marxism-Thaxis] Study Guide: Origins of the Urban Crisis.” Retrieved Jan 11, 2009.  http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism-thaxis/2009-January/023574.html

1.     What did Detroit look like in 1940?

2.     What was the condition of manufacturing in Detroit in the 1940s?

3.     What happened to African Americans’ employment possibilities during World War II?

4.     What is the nature of Detroit’s residential housing stock?

5.     By the 1940s, what were the bases for residential segregation?

6.     What does the author point to as the underlying causes of racial inequality in Detroit?

Assignment - Deadline: Thursday, January 16

A. Post two paragraphs inspired by the study guide questions/thoughts for the week

B.  Post two separate comments to one or more of your colleagues reacting to their paragraphs.  

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