4.
The 100 Year Celebration invites you to a
view is crystal-clear throughout, with
her commentary on the events woven
into the fabric of the text.
Yet, in the New York and Atlanta
sections the book lacks the necessary
depth. Jacoby presents a rather nar-
rowly focused narrative with a limited
picture of the context from which
events unfold.
It is only with Detroit that the
author presents a more comprehensive
historical picture, one that provides an
explanation — without justification
— for the racial polarization that
plagues the city.
Jacoby also writes in a way that
forces readers to ask how things could
have occurred differently. Were the
riots of 1943 and 1967 inevitable given
Detroit's social history? Was the 20-year
tenure of Coleman Young the only way
>Th the city's black residents could achieve
political self-determination and free-
dom from what they believed to be a
racist police department?
These questions go unasked — and
unanswered — by Jacoby, but must
necessarily be considered by anyone
who wants to truly understand the era.
The Detroit story ends with a
chapter titled "Mandate For Anarchy."
"Severed from the regional econo-
my, cut off from meaningful contact
from whites, many city dwellers drift-
ed beyond the pale of hope, their
racial fantasies blossoming wildly, and
even when race and poverty didn't ban
them from the mainstream, their
alienation sealed the door shut," writes
Jacoby.
This is the final, dismal picture
painted of Detroit, although a brief
epilogue presents a glimmer of hope
that under Mayor Dennis Archer,
Detroit may gradually "edge its way
back from disastrous isolation."
Someone Else's House offers the read-
er the opportunity to think, to evalu-
ate and to ask where each of us fits in
to this troubled picture of America's
struggle for integration.
Will we leave it to Mayor Archer
and to other civic leaders to search for
ways to bring the region together?
Will we be satisfied to sit back and
live in our mostly separated white and
black communities? Or is it perhaps
incumbent upon all of us — as indi-
viduals and as members of organiza-
dons, religious institutions and gov-
ernmental entities — to seek ways to
create a society that will help to imple-
ment Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream
of one society?
This is Tamar Jacoby's message to
us all.
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