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

by Marvin Surkin, Dan Georgakas

Overview

Detroit: I Do Mind Dying tracks the extraordinary development of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers as they became two of the landmark political organizations of the 1960s and 1970s. It is widely heralded as one the most important books on the black liberation movement.

Marvin Surkin received his PhD in political science from New York Universityand is a specialist in comparative urban politics and social change. He worked at the center of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit.

Dan Georgakas is a writer, historian, and activist with a long-time interest in social movements. He is the author of My Detroit, Growing up Greek and American in Motor City.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608462216
Publisher:	Haymarket Books
Publication date:	08/21/2012
Edition description:	Third Edition
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.30(h) x 2.40(d)
Lexile:	1290L (what's this?)

About the Author

*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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Foreword ix

Preface to the Second Edition xiii

Preface to the Third Edition xv

Introduction to the First Edition 1

A Prologue James Johnson 9

1 Inner City Voice 13

2 Our Thing is Drum 23

3 We Will Take the Hard Line 43

4 The League of Revolutionary Black Workers 69

5 Niggermation at Eldon 85

6 Finally Got the News 107

7 Black Workers Congress 131

8 Stop the Robberies, Enjoy Safe Streets: Stress 151

9 Mr. Justin Ravitz, Marxist Judge of Recorder's Court 175

10 The 54-Hour Week 189

11 Thirty Years Later 203

12 The Legacy of Drum: Four Histories 211

Further Reading 235

Index 241