A People's Atlas of Detroit

In recent years, Detroit has been touted as undergoing a renaissance, yet many people have been left behind. Drawing on action research and counter-cartography, A People's Atlas of Detroit aims to both chart and help build movements for social justice in the city.
In recent years, Detroit has been touted as undergoing a renaissance, yet many people have been left behind. A People's Atlas of Detroit, edited by Linda Campbell, Andrew Newman, Sara Safransky, and Tim Stallmann comes from a community-based participatory project called Uniting Detroiters that sought to use collective research to strengthen the organizing infrastructure of the city's long-vibrant grassroots sector and reassert residents' roles as active participants in the development process. Drawing on action research and counter-cartography, this book aims to both chart and help build movements for social justice in the city.

A People's Atlas of Detroit is organized into six main chapters. Chapter 1 excavates three centuries of Detroit's past to unearth the histories of racial citizenship that have shaped the city. Chapter 2 adopts a ground-level view of Detroit's contemporary landscapes and highlights the meanings that land holds for residents. Chapter 3 highlights urban farming as one of the key ways that Detroiters have been repurposing vacant land over the last several decades. Chapter 4 analyzes struggles over governance and finances between the state of Michigan and the city of Detroit and other majority African American cities. Chapter 5 moves beyond the gentrification debate-a dominant paradigm since the 1980s-which is neither the only nor the most important factor behind displacement. Chapter 6 focuses on residents' plans and mobilizations to reclaim and rethink public services in the city, including water, transit, and schools. As a whole, the book seeks to highlight and explain current visions for radical change-both in Detroit and cities around the world. A People's Atlas of Detroit weaves together maps, poetry, interviews, photographs, essays, and stories by over fifty residents, activists, and community leaders who offer alternative perspectives on the city's past, present, and future. This volume will reinforce conversations being had by scholars of many disciplines and will inspire communities to continue to raise their voices in the name of representation and change.

Contributor: Joselyn Fitzpatrick Harris (Contributions by), Jerry Smith (Contributions by), Andrew Newman (Edited by), Charity Hicks (Contributions by), Isaac Ginsberg Miller (Contributions by), Kathy Foster (Contributions by), Deborah Williamson (Contributions by), Jacqueline Lacy (Contributions by), Tim Stallmann (Edited by), Tawana ""Honeycomb"" Petty (Contributions by), Michelle Cassidy (Contributions by), Syri Simpson (Contributions by), Michelle Martinez (Contributions by), Sarah Khan (Contributions by), Rhonda Anderson (Contributions by), Shanna Merola (Contributions by), Gregg Newsom (Contributions by), William Copeland (Contributions by), Kezia Curtis (Contributions by), Carmen Malis King (Contributions by), Tiya Miles (Contributions by), Vincent Martin (Contributions by), Josiah Rector (Contributions by), Paul Rodriguez (Contributions by), Gabriela Alcazar (Contributions by), Curtis McGuire (Contributions by), Kaisha Brezina (Contributions by), Kate Levy (Contributions by), Joan Ross (Contributions by), Dianne Feeley (Contributions by), Andrea Sankar (Contributions by), Lee Rodney (Contributions by), Lila Cabbil (Contributions by), Patrick Crouch (Contributions by), Jessi Quizar (Contributions by), Anne-Marie Romanko (Contributions by), Danielle Atkinson (Contributions by), Dessa Cosma (Contributions by), Zak Rosen (Contributions by), Tova Perlmutter (Contributions by), Amelia Wieske (Contributions by), Lauren Rosenthal (Contributions by), Cecily McClellan (Contributions by), Sara Safransky (Edited by), Shea Howell (Contributions by), Isra El-beshir (Contributions by), Yusef ""Bunchy"" Shakur (Contributions by), Lee Gaddies (Contributions by), Robert Johnson (Contributions by), Alex B. Hill (Contributions by), Elena Herrada (Contributions by), Soh Suzuki (Contributions by), Michael Darroch (Contributions by), Lottie Spady (Contributions by), Linda Campbell (Edited by), Wayne Curtis (Contributions by), Ayana Rubio (Contributions by), Betty Scruse (Contributions by), Tanesha Flowers (Contributions by), Mark Luborsky (Contributions by), Jeanine Hatcher (Contributions by), Amy Senese (Contributions by), Herbert Jones (Contributions by), Malik Yakini (Contributions by), Janice Hale (Contributions by), James Perkinson (Contributions by), Jenny Lee (Contributions by), Emily Macgillivray (Contributions by), Imani Harris (Contributions by), Alexandra Passarelli (Contributions by)

Pages: 352

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