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On the night before Halloween, Detroit explodes in flame. The local citizens call that evening Devil's Night; tourists, sociologists and even some visiting firefighters gather to witness this outpouring of urban frustration when houses, abandoned buildings and unused factories burn to the ground in an orgy of arson. In capturing Devil's Night and other troubling Motown movements, Ze'ev Cha-fetshailed as a "1980s de Tocqueville" by The New York Timesreturns to the city of his youth. In the early 1960s Detroit seemed like the model American city. Industry was booming as both blacks and whites found steady work in the auto industry. But in 1967 the worst race riot in American history erupted; overnight, Detroit was violently jerked from an existence as a prosperous, integrated industrial center to that of a chaotic, seething ghetto. Chafets goes back to the city where he grew up and learned the facts of life, a city where his strongest friendship was an unlikely onewith a fatherless black teenager from the ghettoa city where reality set in early when Chafets's own grandfather was killed in a holdup. Chafets leads us through the wilderness of the distinct subcultures of contemporary De

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Author

Ze'ev Chafets

Publisher

Random House, Incorporated

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9780394585253

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Sociology, History

Rating

3.6 / 5 (149 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13