Mark Jay and Philip Conklin’s/A People’s History of Detroit/ makes
people synonymous with system. The authors highlight their work’s
indebtedness to Zinn/,/and they build upon his method by bringing to the
fore not only narratives of struggle and oppression, but also a
materialist account that places that history within systemic conditions.
As Jay and Conklin write, “this means confronting the logic of capital,”
which they see as absent from the overt methods of Zinn’s
classic./Detroit/seeks to untell a tale of two cities — a then (good)
and a now (bad, but revitalizing) — instead linking the Golden Age of
industrialization of the 1950s with the disaster capitalism and
speculation of Detroit’s last few decades, rendering them continuous.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/what-makes-a-peoples-history/
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