These are just a few examples of what non-academic and academic media are saying about Detroit’s urban affairs. Delving deeper, competing differences are barely discernible, except for one: sports. Professional baseball ranks 6th in non-academic media followed by professional football at 9, and professional hockey at 11. When we think of entertainment and leisure the academic publications speak to fairs and shows, ranking them 13, and popular music at 23. The non academic media address music at 29 and parks and recreation areas at 31.

Separating women, children, the homeless and the elderly out from minorities and ethnicities, we find that these marginalized groups have a stronger representation by the academy. Race and ethnicity and urban development are most illuminated across both the academic publications and non-academic popular media. The language ranges from race relations to racism, to minority and ethnic groups, to residential segregation, to riots within academic texts. On the other hand, in non-academic popular media the language is civil rights, race relations, racism, residential segregations, and riots.

Number of Occurrences in Acadmic Writing by Subject

Regarding urban development the notion of cities ranks high across both: 3 in academic endeavors and 2 in non academic media. The Urban discourse is represented in language such as, neighborhoods, economic development, area planning and development, community development, business development, and business community. The academic world addresses urban development, economic development, community development, public health and housing. Yet the tension between human flourishing is contrasted by reference to mental health, drug abuse, and pollution. While the academy does not fully articulate how these problems might be addressed, the non academic media makes light of concerns in terms of education reform, education, colleges and universities, education and public schools.

Since 1701 the city has become the home of immigrants from French to British to Irish and Italians. The speed of demographic changes in Detroit continues with the more recent of Arab Americans, and Hispanics expressed by both academic and non academic media. Emerging from the data is a story, illuminating the social and economic foundations of racial and class inequality in Post-War Detroit. To what extent, it is still unknown, but Detroit is like many other urban Centers-a reflection of America’s great experiment as it undergoes transformation in the 21st Century. Forgetting the old stereotypes, today’s Detroit is a burgeoning mash-up of color, culture, and ethnicity. Returning back to the The Oral History Collection at the Walter P. Reuther Library, we can still hear the voices of remembered immigrants from Finland, Poland, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Somalia, Russia, Ethiopia, Mexico, Cuba, and the Philippines, just to name a few. In the end media is an understanding of human behavior with an aim to positively contribute to the interpretation of the fears, trepidations, hopes, and dreams of human beings.

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