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Detroit People2012 Independent Publisher’s Book Award2012 Choice OuTSTANDING Academic TitleArab Detroit 9/11Life in the Terror DecadeEdited by Nabeel Abraham,Sally Howell, and Andrew J. Shryock“While many Americans think of thelast decade as terror visited on the USfrom outside, Arabs and Muslims inmetropolitan Detroit experienced adecade of terror from within the US.In chapters on the history of the communityin Detroit featuring interviewswith residents, demographics, andreflections by Christians and Muslims,the editors have assembled an outstanding,must-read volume.”—ChoiceA follow-up to Arab Detroit: FromMargin to Mainstream (Wayne StateUniversity Press, 2000), this volumepresents accounts of how life forArabs in post-9/11 metro Detroit haschanged over the last ten years.2011 / 6 x 9 / 424 pp / 20 illusISBN 978-0-8143-3500-0$24.95s paperISBN 978-0-8143-3682-3 eGreat Lakes Books SeriesArab DetroitFrom Margin to MainstreamEdited by Nabeel Abraham andAndrew Shryock“While there have been studies ofDetroit and Arab Americans generally,there is no such in-depth analysis, fromso many angles and on so many differentArab ethnic groups.”—Philip Kayal, Seton Hall UniversityMemoirs and poems by Lebanese,Chaldean, Yemeni, and Palestinianwriters anchor the book, while overfifty photographs provide a backdropof images.2000 / 6 x 9 / 640 pp / 52 illusISBN 978-0-8143-2811-8$54.95s clothISBN 978-0-8143-2812-5$27.95s paperGreat Lakes Books SeriesUntold Tales,Unsung HeroesAn Oral History ofDetroit’s African AmericanCommunity, 1918–1967Elaine Latzman MoonThe Detroit Urban League, Inc.“Reveals the emotional and humanside of black life in Detroit.”—Christian Science Monitor1993 / 6 x 9 / 408 pp / 56 illusISBN 978-0-8143-2465-3$24.95l paperISBN 978-0-8143-3849-0 eAfrican American Life SeriesPages from a BlackRadical’s NotebookA James Boggs ReaderEdited by Stephen M. WardWith an Afterword by Grace LeeBoggs“This volume should be requiredreading for anyone who wants to understandurban social transformationin the second part of the twentiethcentury. It fills many gaps in our currentunderstanding of urban, civil rights,black power, labor, and revolutionaryhistory.”—Beth Bates, associate professor of Africanastudies at Wayne State UniversityBorn in the rural American south, JamesBoggs lived nearly his entire adult life inDetroit and worked as a factory workerfor twenty-eight years while immersinghimself in the political struggles of theindustrial urban north.2010 / 7 x 10 / 416 ppISBN 978-0-8143-3256-6$27.95s paperISBN 978-0-8143-3641-0 eAfrican American Life Series2009 Independent Publisher’s Book AwardBronze medal in the category of Autobiography/MemoirRace andRemembranceA MemoirArthur L. JohnsonWith an Introductionby Charles V. Willieand a Foreword by Samuel Cook“Arthur L. Johnson is one of the unsungheroes who created the new world ofblack and white America. You oughtto know this man and his life story.He is one of the great yea-sayers andyea-makers of our times.—Lerone Bennett Jr., author, historian,and executive editor emeritus, EbonyMagazine2008 / 6 x 9 / 288 pp / 42 illusISBN 978-0-8143-3370-9$24.95l clothISBN 978-0-8143-3749-3 eAfrican American Life SeriesBridging theRiver of HatredThe Pioneering Efforts ofDetroit Police CommissionerGeorge EdwardsMary M. StolbergPortrays the career of Detroit’s visionarypolice commissioner in the early1960s.1998 / 6 x 9 / 368 pp / 23 illusISBN 978-0-8143-2573-5$21.95l paperGreat Lakes Books Series26Wayne State University Press regional Books