... Blackness and electricity. Going beyond a traditional literary close reading, this essay triangulates a reading of Invisible Man with a history of General Electric's “electric Slave” advertisements from the interwar period and concludes with an analysis of a 2010 WXYZ‐TV Detroit news segment focused...

... read what I had written about the struggles in Detroit, I felt that I had helped to make the history of the city and that it was therefore my responsibility to resolve the con- tradictions that had emerged out of our...

... studies at Wayne State University. He is currently working on an oral history project, “Oldtimers: The Brewsters and Detroit,” which initiated Detroit Voices: Race and Labor Activists, a book of interviews and analyses, written in collaboration with Elizabeth Bates...

..., infrastructural violence takes the form of exclusion (as when Detroit residents’ electricity is cut off), while inclusion (turning the electricity back on) implies the negation of this violence. But infrastructure also effects violence through inclusion, by bringing people, communities, and territories...

... over territory. The film’s protagonist, Walt Kowal­ski, played by Eastwood, is a Korean War veteran living in a for- merly white working-­class suburb of Detroit that is now primarily occu- Fung · Chai Soua Vang, Gra n Tor i no, and the Problem of Historicizing...

... wreckage that prompted its emergence in the first place, whether we locate its much-­disputed origins in Detroit in the late 1960s, New York in the early to mid-­1970s, or London and a score of British cities in 1975 – 1977. As the essays in this special issue of Social Text explore, if punk has...

... (New York), G. R. N’Namdi Gallery (Detroit), and Real Art Ways (Hartford, CT). He trained in graphic design in France, where he was born, was a 2004 Fulbright Scholar, and holds a BFA from Howard University and an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. For more information, see...

... circuits it appears as a melancholy trace whose apparent legibility hides our own mystification about its origins. Some of the theories that accompany our prurient gaze over the ruins of Detroit are almost as arbitrary as those that ufologists posit about the Nazca lines of Peru. The manufactured...

..., great to recruit queer kids from Detroit public schools, but the group pays for their housing and then exerts what seems like a crazy amount of control over their lives—but you love this kid; he’s obviously great; you are so very happy to see him here. Why are you so contrary otherwise? You feel...

... philanthropy at the crossroads , edited by D. Burlingame and D. Young. Bloomington:Indiana University Press, 7 -22. Yerak, B. 2000 . Lions share market with women: Alpha males move over. Detroit News , 7 January, B1 . Yúdice, G. 1995 . The vicissitudes of civil society. Social Text 45 (winter...

... the turbulent political waters of the Arab world it was necessary for Malcolm to shift his allegiances as needed . His “newfound hostility” toward Israel could be explained only by an intuitive trickster/hustler mentality (à la Detroit Red), not a shift in his political thought. On the contrary, I argue...

... the corporate and state sectors declared a crisis. Their crisis was not about the attacks on US soil or the loss of life or sovereignty or any of that stuff. Their concern was for the loss of flow. Border closure meant that transnational supply chains — in particular in the Detroit- Windsor just- in- time auto...

... and the direct.15 As Detroit hardcore band Negative Approach put it, “Why Be Something That You’re Not?” (the adopted name of a Detroit cable access program about punk and hardcore).16 In terms of hardcore ethics, which were all about being “real” and dismissing “posers,” this was a rhetorical question...

... – 96. 26. Gaines, American Africans in Ghana, 10. See also Ronald Walters, Pan Africanism in the African Diaspora: An Analysis of Modern Afrocentric Political Move- ments (Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1993); and Jemima Pierre and Jesse Shipley, “African/Diaspora History...

.... 14. USA Today, 6 November 2001. 15. Durham Herald-Sun, 22 December 2001. 16. Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle (Detroit: Black and Red, 1977). 17. Ibid., thesis 70. 18. Ibid...

... moved to New York City and began living the life of a welfare hotel resident. Weston was a Black, queer multimedia outsider artist, poet, activist, and menswear designer. He grew up in Detroit as a child of the Great Migration and made the city his home until his death in 2020 from cancer. Weston worked...

... Africa), as noir emerged, was not only the war in Europe and Asia but also the “zoot suit riots,” the urban upris- ings in Harlem, Detroit, and other American cities that the African Ameri- can author Chester Himes bluntly identified as race riots. Stuart Cosgrove has remarked that “when...

...- tine,” Nation, February 4, 2002. 8. Grace C. Lee, Cornelius Castoriadus, and C. L. R. James, Facing Reality (1958; Detroit, Mich.: Bewick, 1973), 105. 9. Neil Smith, “Revanchism,” Social Text 57 (winter 1998): 1–20...

... . . . and I ride and I ride,” by Iggy Pop (Berlin via Detroit, 1977); to critiques of inner-­city racism, like “Concrete jungle . . . the animals are after me,” by the Spe- cials (Coventry, 1979) — the punks’ city was both a scene of violence and of potential safety.1 In the conflict-­torn cities...

... as a radical intellectual in exile in order to pursue a very different—and still active— model of radical praxis as extreme localism through urban “place-based” activism in Detroit. The three articles also echo Black Marxism (and the figures cited...