By Michael Mascarenhas, author of Toxic Water, Toxic System: Environmental Racism and Michigan’s Water War My new book, Toxic Water, Toxic System is not just the story of how the state failed …
Read More >By Scott Kurashige, author of The Fifty-Year Rebellion: How the U.S. Political Crisis Began in Detroit Engulfing cities in both literal and metaphorical flames, a wave of rebellions erupts across the nation amid …
Read More >By Angela Chen, Archna Patel, and Jack Young, UC Press Production and Editorial Staff Last month while in Detroit attending the annual Association of University Presses conference, we made a side trip to …
Read More >By Scott Kurashige, author of The Fifty-Year Rebellion: How the U.S. Political Crisis Began in Detroit This guest post is part of a blog series of contributions by authors in American Studies Now, an e-book first series of …
Read More >Detroit has stood at the center of a growing crisis in the United States tied to racial conflict, the collapse of the middle class, and political polarization. No city, argues historian Scott …
Read More >by Scott Kurashige This guest post is part of a series published in conjunction with the meeting of the American Studies Association in Denver. UC Press authors share insight into their research and stories that reflect …
Read More >In the last 40 years millions of jobs in the United states have been lost due to capital flight and deindustrialization. Unemployment rates have skyrocketed for all workers, but especially Black workers. …
Read More >Last week’s news that Detroit will default on $2 billion of debt has many wondering what will happen to cities in similar financial distress, and to the nation’s economy as a whole. Gordon Young’s …
Read More >Many people look at a vacant lot and see failure, destruction, or nothing at all. Grace Lee Boggs sees possibilities for a cultural revolution. Boggs, a 95-year-old Detroit-based activist and author of …
Read More >In the latest UC Press Podcast, Grace Lee Boggs, author of The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century, discusses her vision for creating a new American Revolution through radical …
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