TY  - GEN
T1  - Forging Identity  : The Story of Carlos Nielbock's Detroit.
A1  - Draus, Paul J.
A2  - Nielbock, Carlos A.
LA  - English
PP  - East Lansing
PB  - Michigan State University Press
YR  - 2025
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1472986633
AB  - "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"--
OP  - 191
NO  - Description based upon print version of record.
CN  - NA3512
SN  - 9781609177720
SN  - 160917772X
SN  - 9781611865165
SN  - 1611865166
SN  - 9781611865141
SN  - 161186514X
SN  - 9781628955323
SN  - 1628955325
KW  - Nielbock, Carlos.
KW  - Metal-workers : United States : Biography.
KW  - Detroit (Mich.) : Social conditions : 20th century.
KW  - Detroit (Mich.) : Social conditions : 21st century.
KW  - Metal-workers--United States--Biography.
KW  - Detroit (Mich.)--Biography.
KW  - Detroit (Mich.)--Social conditions--20th century.
KW  - Detroit (Mich.)--Social conditions--21st century.
KW  - Travailleurs des métaux : États-Unis : Biographies.
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
ER  -