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Chargement... Zug Island: A Detroit Riot Novelpar Gregory A. Fournier
Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  kybunnies | Oct 19, 2014 |   It's an interesting story about a suburban college student from Dearborn (at that time, a bastion of white segregation whose "Keep Dearborn Clean" city motto made a fierce point) who comes to make friends with blacks during 18 months spent working in a grungy industrial hellhole on a man-made island in the Detroit River. When the riot erupts, he realizes that none of his family or the friends he grew up with and went to school with can see rioters as anything more than ignorant savages. Great literature it isn't. But it brings back a time when I was pretty much getting to know black people for the first time. (In my life back in Bay City, there were a total of two black students in the three schools I attended before starting college). And it also brought back memories of the summer I spent working in a foundry in Saginaw between my Freshman and Sophomore years. It wasn't until after I finished the book that I saw the sticker inside the front cover reporting that it had been donated to the library collection by librarian Bruce Bett. Good stuff, Bruce. (  ) dickmanikowski | Apr 21, 2012 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Zug Island: A Detroit Riot Noveltells a Huck Finn-meets-heavy-industry tale about a suburban white kid who gets a crash course in race relations. Set in 1967 against a backdrop of industrial blight and urban decay, the book follows Jake Malone and Theo Semple as they stumble in and out of rhythm on Detroit's mean streets to discover that the face of racism comes in every shade of color. After getting kicked out of college, Jake needs to find work in Detroit's frozen rust belt. Armed with a shovel and a keen sense of self-preservation, he enters the dark reaches of Zug Island and must prove his worth, not only to himself but to everyone around him. He is befriended on the job by Theo; their friendship grows until put to the test outside the well-defined boundaries of the coke ovens. There they find that racial discrimination, enshrined behind Detroit's segregated suburban neighborhoods for decades, is alive and well. Then one sweltering, early Sunday morning, an aggressive Detroit police squad puts into motion a raid on a "blind pig" that ignites the heart of the city, setting old hatreds ablaze, leaving much of the town in ruins and suburbia witness to its worst fears. Hell has come to town. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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This was a wonderful book. I did not know anything about a riot that happened in Detroit but since it happened before I was born that is not surprising. The author wrote a wonderful book. The author provided so much information about the racial problems but allowed 2 people to become friends. This book was well written with developed characters and a great plot.
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