Community violence is a type of trauma commonly experienced in inner cities. Qualitative methods and hermeneutic phenomenology were used to identify connections of low use of professional mental health services by African American men in inner-city settings to chronic exposure t…
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This study is intended to extend our understanding of immigrant political integration by analyzing Yemeni immigrants' attitudes toward integration into North American society, exploring the case of Yemeni-Americans, a group reputedly resistant to integration, in both Dearborn an…
This work focuses on Detroit from 1805 to 1812, with a focus on the changes brought about by the advent of the Michigan Territory and the reaction to those changes by the predominantly French-speaking citizens of the town. This work relies on previously underutilized petitions a…
The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore if September 11 had an influence on the relations between non-Arab and Arab Americans in Detroit. The data of the study were collected from 10 participants, five non-Arab and five Arab Americans. Through the i…
In Detroit, African Americans constitute over eighty percent of the population, and the black community has a firm grip on municipal political power in the city. But among African Americans there is still a pervasive sense of disenfranchisement at the hands of large corporate, a…
During the Progressive Era, a number of reform mayors assumed office in cities throughout America. Three Midwestern cities, Detroit, Michigan, and Toledo and Cleveland, Ohio, were particularly blessed in this regard. Hazen S. Pingree of Detroit, elected in 1889, challenged priva…
Immigrants have always played an important role in the United States economy. The purpose of this study was to examine the adaptation of Arab immigrants and refugees who left their countries due to the invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990 and resettled in the Tri-county of Great…
Immigrant populations provide a unique opportunity to explore the intersection of cultural and environmental risk factors implicated in asthma etiology and exacerbation. As an underserved, low-income ethnic minority group living in an urban area with high levels of industrial po…
Neighborhood residential stability is widely considered to be beneficial to the health of neighborhoods and the people who live in them, but may influence health differently depending on neighborhood income composition. To examine these effects in an older, predominantly low inc…
This acculturation study examined the role of media among a sample of Arab women immigrants living in Metropolitan Detroit, home to the highest concentration of Arabic-speaking communities in the United States. This inquiry used a communication perspective with in-depth intervie…
The following novel is the third draft of my creative thesis entitled Dancing in the Ashes . It is an exploration of the Detroit rave scene in its dying days, and it mixes real and imagined places and events in order to portray the essence of that time, if not the factuality. Th…
This dissertation focuses on the experiences of Arab immigrants in Detroit and Dearborn, Michigan. It integrates both quantitative data (from the Detroit Arab American Study) and qualitative data (in-depth interviews with 46 Arab immigrant owners of small businesses), and explor…
Inadequate access to a good selection of high-quality nutritious foods may be a barrier to healthy eating in impoverished, African-American neighborhoods and contribute to higher morbidity and mortality. In this study, I examined the spatial distribution of nutritional resources…
This dissertation explores the political, economic, and environmental choices that led city officials in Detroit to build the world’s largest waste incinerator. In the 1970s, Detroit officials – led by Mayor Coleman Young – confronted the difficult financial realities of the urb…
Scholars of planning and policy have long argued that metropolitan or regional institutions for planning and governance are needed to address such problems as urban sprawl, central city decline, and inter-jurisdictional segregation and inequality. Yet some form of regional plann…
This dissertation examines the relationality of dispossession, racialization, and migration in Detroit, connecting the neoliberal rationality of (re)development to its foundations in Indigenous dispossession and racialized labor. "(Sī'tĭng) Detroit" understands Detroit as a bord…
This dissertation offers a Marxist history of Detroit, spanning the years 1913–2018. With a primary emphasis on the class struggle between the capitalist class and the proletariat, it examines how the profit logic has affected the city’s development, throughout its industrial an…
ReGen: Detroit will look to occupy a unique space between the delicate balance of old and new in the Motor City. American post-industrial cities, were once leveled and left vacant, act as the ideal design “tabula rasa” and architectural stage. The architect can project their own…
This is a history of artists and the ways they were policed in Michigan from the 1950s to the 1970s, as told primarily through the experiences of John Sinclair, a poet, writer, journalist, artist, organizer, and activist who served prison time for violations of the state narcoti…