Forging Identity : The Story of Carlos Nielbock's Detroit.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Draus, Paul J.

Contributor:

Nielbock, Carlos A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nielbock, Carlos.

Metal-workers--United States--Biography.

Metal-workers.

Detroit (Mich.)--Biography.

Detroit (Mich.).

Detroit (Mich.)--Social conditions--20th century.

Detroit (Mich.)--Social conditions--21st century.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (191 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"An urban sociologist befriends a visionary Detroit craftsman, artist, and inventor. Over the course of the next several years Paul Draus records how Carlos Nielbock's life experiences act as a lens that refracts the key challenges facing the city of Detroit and presents the city's redevelopment as an evolving high-stakes drama. Combining sociological context and theory, Draus chronicles Nielbock's mixed-race upbringing in postwar Germany, his journey to find his Black father in 1980s Detroit, his struggles with racial and cultural adversity, and his ambitious artistic vision for Detroit's future. Direct observations, interviews, and historical research on Detroit's ascendance, decline, and resurgence underpin Nielbock's story. The book explores race and identity, craftsmanship and capitalism, and criminal justice and incarceration"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

A Note on Illustrations

Introduction

Chapter 1. Curly Hair, Curly Mind

Chapter 2. Welcome to Detroit

Chapter 3. Craftsman and Contrarian

Chapter 4. Confronted with the Might

Chapter 5. Crazy as Hell

Chapter 6. Fighting (For) Detroit's Future

Conclusion

Afterword, by Carlos Antonios Nielbock

Epilogue, Marsha Music

Farewell to Clarence

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781609177720

160917772X

OCLC:

1472986633