Detroit: I Do Mind Dying : A Study in Urban Revolution - Softcover

Surkin, Marvin; Georgakas, Dan

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ISBN 10: 1608462218 ISBN 13: 9781608462216

Verlag: Haymarket Books, 2012

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New Preface and new Afterword Published to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the initial release of Detroit: I Do Mind Dying. A timeless document of one of the most important moments of the Black Liberation movement of the 1960's and 70's. Title will benefit from reinvigorated interest in issues of black liberation stemming from Occupy the Hood. Dr. Surkin lectures frequently on urban issues. The book served as the inspiration for the 1999 Film, Finally Got The News-Revolutionary Black Unions in Detroit. In addition to his activism with urban politics and development, Dr. Surkin has served as consultant to the New World Foundation, which seeks to help progressive community activist in the United States, Mexico, and around the world build stronger alliances to social justice, civil rights, economic, and electoral issues.

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*Marvin Surkin, PhD, Political Science, New York University, New York, NY is a specialist in comparative urban politics and social change. He conducts workshops on Workplace and Community Organizing, Urban Political Economy, and Urban Renewal in the U.S.A. and its Significance for Development in the Third World, and Comparative Urban Architecture. Surkin worked at the center of League of Revolutionary Black workers in Detroit. *Dan Georgakas is a writer, historian, and activist with a long-time interest in social movements. He co-edited Solidarity Forever: An Oral History of the IWW, Encyclopedia of the American Left, and The Immigrant Left in the United States. Dan Georgakas is a longtime editor of Cineaste magazine and has contributed to numerous film anthologies and other film journals. Dan Georgakas founded the Greek American Committee of the Modern Greek Studies Association and has contributed to numerous ethnic journals and newspapers. His memoir is My Detroit, Growing Up Greek and American in Motor City. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

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• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1608462218
• ISBN 13: 9781608462216
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 3
• Anzahl der Seiten: 282