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\"On July 23, 1967, the eyes of the nation fixed on Detroit as thousands took to the streets to vent their frustrations with white racism, police brutality, and vanishing job prospects in the place that gave rise to the American Dream. For mainstream observers, the \"riot\" brought about the ruin of a once-great city, and then in 2013, the city's municipal bankruptcy served as a bailout that paved the way for Detroit to finally be rebuilt. Challenging this prevailing view, Scott Kurashige portrays the past half-century as a long \"rebellion\" the underlying tensions of which continue to haunt the city and the U.S. nation-state. Michigan's scandal-ridden emergency-management regime represents the most concerted effort to quell this rebellion by disenfranchising the majority black citizenry and neutralizing the power of unions. The corporate architects of Detroit's restructuring have championed the creation of a \"business-friendly\" city where billionaire developers are subsidized to privatize and gentrify downtown while working-class residents are squeezed out by rampant housing evictions, school closures, water shutoffs, toxic pollution, and militarized policing. From the grassroots, however, Detroit has emerged as an international model for survival, resistance, and solidarity through the creation of urban farms, freedom schools, and self-governing communities. A quintessential American story of tragedy and hope, The Fifty-Year Rebellion forces us to look in the mirror and ask, Are we succumbing to authoritarian plutocracy, or can we create a new society rooted in social justice and participatory democracy?\"--Provided by publisher.

This title is part of American Studies Now and available as an e-book first. Visit ucpress.edu/go/americanstudiesnow to learn more. On July 23, 1967, the eyes of the world fixed on Detroit, as thousands took to the streets to vent their frustrations with white racism, police brutality, and vanishing job prospects in the place that gave rise to the American Dream. Mainstream observers contended that the \"riot\" brought about the ruin of a once-great city; for them, the municipal bankruptcy of 2013 served as a bailout paving the way for the rebuilding of Detroit. Challenging this prevailing view, Scott Kurashige portrays the past half century as a long rebellion whose underlying tensions continue to haunt the city and the U.S. nation-state. He sees Michigan's scandal-ridden \"emergency management\" regime, set up to handle the bankruptcy, as the most concerted effort to put it down by disenfranchising the majority black citizenry and neutralizing the power of unions. Are we succumbing to authoritarian plutocracy or can we create a new society rooted in social justice and participatory democracy? The corporate architects of Detroit's restructuring have championed the creation of a \"business-friendly\" city, where billionaire developers are subsidized to privatize and gentrify Downtown, while working-class residents are being squeezed out by rampant housing evictions, school closures, water shutoffs, toxic pollution, and militarized policing. Grassroots organizers, however, have transformed Detroit into an international model for survival, resistance, and solidarity through the creation of urban farms, freedom schools, and self-governing communities. This epochal struggle illuminates the possible futures for our increasingly unstable and polarized nation.

The Strategist's Best Books About Asian American Identity, New York Magazine  The pioneering Asian American labor organizer and writer's vision for intersectional and anti-racist activism.   In this powerful, deeply humanistic book, Grace Lee Boggs, a legendary figure in the struggle for justice in America, shrewdly assesses the current crisis-political, economical, and environmental-and shows how to create the radical social change we need to confront new realities. A vibrant, inspirational force, Boggs has participated in all of the twentieth century's major social movements-for civil rights, women's rights, workers' rights, and more. She draws from seven decades of activist experience, and a rigorous commitment to critical thinking, to redefine \"revolution\" for our times.   From her home in Detroit, she reveals how hope and creativity are overcoming despair and decay within the most devastated urban communities. Her book is a manifesto for creating alternative modes of work, politics, and human interaction that will collectively constitute the next American Revolution-which is unraveling before our eyes.

What time is it on the clock of the world? If Grace Lee Boggs were here today, she would say that we live in a time of great danger but also great hope. We are simultaneously moved on local, national, and global scales to confront white supremacist, neoliberal dispossession; the commodification of every aspect of life, thought, and feeling; ecological disasters once unfathomable, now increasingly routine; the looming prospect of epochal levels of extinction; reactionary violence and exclusion to uphold heteropatriarchy; and genocidal state and corporate policies and practices. As Trumpism has exposed the bottomless depths of white male fragility, it has also laid bare the corruption of capitalism and the limits of US power. Our theme, “Build as We Fight,” is a call to resist the destructive effects of this rotting system while acknowledging the imperative to create alternative means of survival and models of community from the ground up in order to address social problems that those in power cannot and will not solve. We must organize, and we must struggle over ideas. And there is no better place for us to learn about both than right here in Hawai‘i. I am forever grateful to the members of the ASA staff, Program Committee, and Site Resource Committee who have made this possible, especially the scholars of Hawai‘i who have patiently nurtured my ongoing education.In the face of a history marked by the exploitation and dispossession wrought by plantations, militarism, and tourism, those of us coming from elsewhere are blessed with a wealth of opportunities to learn from and stand with the movements for Hawaiian Renaissance and Indigenous Resurgence. We are here not just to expose the edges of empire but to unite with our Hawai‘i-based members and friends of the ASA at the center of place-based epistemologies, methodologies, sovereignties, and cosmologies. As ice caps melt and typhoons swell, we look to Native Pacific navigators for guidance to chart a path through the treacherous waters ahead. This address consists of three parts roughly organized into my assessment of the past, present, and future. First, I trace the emergence of the ASA as an antidisciplinary home for those coming from outside the institutional history of American Studies. Second, I seek to define the openings created by the seismic political and epistemological ruptures marking the crisis of liberal capitalism and contested transition to a new system. Finally, I provide examples of scholar–activist work that seek to build the revolution toward a new social order as we struggle with the degeneration of the existing one.

On July 23, 1967, the eyes of the world fixed on Detroit, as thousands took to the streets to vent their frustrations with white racism, police brutality, and vanishing job prospects in the place that gave rise to the American Dream. Mainstream observers contended that the \"riot\" brought about the ruin of a once-great city; for them, the municipal bankruptcy of 2013 served as a bailout paving the way for the rebuilding of Detroit. Challenging this prevailing view, Scott Kurashige portrays the past half century as a long rebellion whose underlying tensions continue to haunt the city and the U.S. nation-state. He sees Michigan's scandal-ridden \"emergency management\" regime, set up to handle the bankruptcy, as the most concerted effort to put it down by disenfranchising the majority black citizenry and neutralizing the power of unions.   Are we succumbing to authoritarian plutocracy or can we create a new society rooted in social justice and participatory democracy? The corporate architects of Detroit's restructuring have championed the creation of a \"business-friendly\" city, where billionaire developers are subsidized to privatize and gentrify Downtown, while working-class residents are being squeezed out by rampant housing evictions, school closures, water shutoffs, toxic pollution, and militarized policing. Grassroots organizers, however, have transformed Detroit into an international model for survival, resistance, and solidarity through the creation of urban farms, freedom schools, and self-governing communities. This epochal struggle illuminates the possible futures for our increasingly unstable and polarized nation.

A world dominated by America and driven by cheap oil, easy credit, and conspicuous consumption is unraveling before our eyes. In this powerful, deeply humanistic book, Grace Lee Boggs, a legendary figure in the struggle for justice in America, shrewdly assesses the current crisis—political, economical, and environmental—and shows how to create the radical social change we need to confront new realities. A vibrant, inspirational force, Boggs has participated in all of the twentieth century's major social movements—for civil rights, women's rights, workers' rights, and more. She draws from seven decades of activist experience, and a rigorous commitment to critical thinking, to redefine \"revolution\" for our times. From her home in Detroit, she reveals how hope and creativity are overcoming despair and decay within the most devastated urban communities. Her book is a manifesto for creating alternative modes of work, politics, and human interaction that will collectively constitute the next American Revolution.

In 2011, Michigan lawmakers laid the foundation for an enhanced state takeover of Detroit and other municipalities and school districts. When first passed in 1990, “emergency management” had been limited to financial matters, but the new emergency manager law, Michigan Public Act 4, authorized the state to seize control of all matters of city governance. Within school districts, emergency managers would now control every decision regarding finances, academics, curriculum, and teaching. Reflecting the law’s conservative authorship, the emergency manager could break union contracts but not cancel agreements with banks.¹ The GOP fought ruthlessly against any attempt to contest the controversial