Revolution Detroit

Revolution Detroit
Author: John Gallagher
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Detroit (Mich.)
ISBN: 9780814338711

A practical guide to what's working in urban reinvention with examples drawn from Detroit and other cities.

Detroit, I Do Mind Dying

Detroit, I Do Mind Dying
Author: Dan Georgakas
Publisher: South End Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1998
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780896085718

This new South End Press edition makes available the full text of this out-of-print classic--along with a new foreword by Manning Marable, interviews with participants in DRUM, and reflections on political developments over the past threee decades by Georgakas and Surkin.

Revolutionary Detroit

Revolutionary Detroit
Author: Denver Brunsman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Detroit (Mich.)
ISBN: 9780615321141

This essay collection highlights the rich cultural history of Detroit during the American revolutionary era as the frontier outpost shifted, in one generation, from French to British to American control.

A People's History of Detroit

A People's History of Detroit
Author: Mark Jay
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2020-04-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1478009357

Recent bouts of gentrification and investment in Detroit have led some to call it the greatest turnaround story in American history. Meanwhile, activists point to the city's cuts to public services, water shutoffs, mass foreclosures, and violent police raids. In A People's History of Detroit, Mark Jay and Philip Conklin use a class framework to tell a sweeping story of Detroit from 1913 to the present, embedding Motown's history in a global economic context. Attending to the struggle between corporate elites and radical working-class organizations, Jay and Conklin outline the complex sociopolitical dynamics underlying major events in Detroit's past, from the rise of Fordism and the formation of labor unions, to deindustrialization and the city's recent bankruptcy. They demonstrate that Detroit's history is not a tale of two cities—one of wealth and development and another racked by poverty and racial violence; rather it is the story of a single Detroit that operates according to capitalism's mandates.

Women Rapping Revolution

Women Rapping Revolution
Author: Kellie D. Hay
Publisher: University of California Press
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2020-06-09
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0520305329

Detroit, MIchigan, has long been recognized as a center of musical innovation and social change. Rebekah Farrugia and Kellie D. Hay draw on seven years of fieldwork to illuminate the important role that women have played in mobilizing a grassroots response to political and social pressures at the heart of Detroit’s ongoing renewal and development project. Focusing on the Foundation, a women-centered hip hop collective, Women Rapping Revolution argues that the hip hop underground is a crucial site where Black women shape subjectivity and claim self-care as a principle of community organizing. Through interviews and sustained critical engagement with artists and activists, this study also articulates the substantial role of cultural production in social, racial, and economic justice efforts.

Grit, Noise, and Revolution

Grit, Noise, and Revolution
Author: David A. Carson
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2006-06-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 0472031902

A narrative history of the birth of rock 'n' roll in Detroit

The Next American Revolution

The Next American Revolution
Author: Grace Lee Boggs
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2012-05-31
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0520272595

"Reading Grace Lee Boggs helps you glimpse a United States that is better and more beautiful than you thought it was. As she analyzes some of the inspiring theories and practices that have emerged from the struggles for equality and freedom in Detroit and beyond, she also shows us that in this country, a future revolution is not only necessary but possible." —Michael Hardt, co-author of Commonwealth "This groundbreaking book not only represents the best of Grace Lee Boggs, but the best of any radical, visionary thinking in the United States. She reminds us why revolution is not only possible and necessary, but in some places already in the making. The conditions we face under neoliberalism and war do, indeed, mark the end of an era in which the old ideological positions of protest are not really relevant or effective—and this book offers a new way forward."—Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination “Grace Boggs has long been a major voice of hope and action for transformation of the United States and the world. Here is her testimony of hope and program for action. It must be taken seriously.” —Immanuel Wallerstein, author of Utopistics: or, Historical Choices of the Twenty-first Century "One of the most accomplished radicals of our time, the Detroit-based visionary Grace Lee Boggs has become one of our most influential and inspiring public intellectuals. The Next American Revolution is her powerful reflection on a lifetime of urban revolutionary work, an ode to the courage and brilliance of her late partner James Boggs, and a plain-spoken call for us to address the troubled times we face with a sense of history, a strong set of values, and an unwavering faith in our own creative, restorative powers." —Jeff Chang, author of Can't Stop Won't Stop

Detroit 1967

Detroit 1967
Author: Joel Stone
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2017-05-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 081434304X

Readers of Detroit history and urban studies will be drawn to and enlightened by these powerful essays.

Reimagining Detroit

Reimagining Detroit
Author: John Gallagher
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780814334690

"Whether urban or rural dweller, academic or practitioner, the reader takes from Gallagher a deeper appreciation of both the challenges and opportunities that exist within our cities, challenges and opportunities that will ultimately impact our country."-Jay Williams, mayor of Youngstown, Ohio, from the foreword --Book Jacket.

A Black Revolutionary's Life in Labor

A Black Revolutionary's Life in Labor
Author: Michael C. Hamlin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2013
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780615718132

A Black Revolutionary's Life in Labor: Black Workers Power in Detroit by Michael Hamlin with Michele Gibbs is a must read personal narrative of a book for labor activists, students and educators, community organizers and lovers of black history. In this candid narrative Hamlin exposes the horrors of growing up black in America from a Mississippi sharecropper's plantation to Korean War soldier, and ultimately truck driver for the Detroit News and his increasing rage at the system. Hamlin, a key organizer of DRUM and a leader of The League of Revolutionary Black Workers, describes his role in the 1960's and early 1970's when black assembly line workers shut down Chrysler Detroit's Dodge Main and Eldon Road auto plants to protest racial discrimination, safety violations and poor working conditions. The actions spawned a national revolutionary union movement built on black workers power. In documented conversation with Michele Gibbs, political activist, artist and poet, Hamlin offers an inside look at the development of the League and its internal struggles, analyzes historic gains made and lessons learned as they apply to the continuing fight for racial equality by the working class. The book includes a Readers Study Guide, appendices of documents, poetry, artwork and photos pertinent to the period.