Detroit: I Do Mind Dying (Updated)
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Product details
- ISBN 9798903930852
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 24 Nov 2026
- Publisher: Haymarket Books
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
Since its original publication in 1975, Detroit: I Do Mind Dying has been widely recognized as one of the most important books on the Black liberation movement and labor struggles in the United States.
The book tells the remarkable story of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, based in Detroit, and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, two of the most important, and underappreciated, Black radical organizations of the 1960s and 1970s. This new edition features an introduction by Austin McCoy and a foreword by Manning Marable.
Dan Georgakas was a writer, historian, and activist with a long-time interest in social movements. He was a long-time editor of Cineaste film quarterly, co-editor of The Encyclopedia of the American Left, and author of My Detroit, Growing up Greek and American in the Motor City.
Marvin Surkin (1938-2025) received his PhD in political science from New York University and was a specialist in comparative urban politics and social change. He worked at the center of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit.
Manning Marable (1950-2011) was a professor of public affairs, history and African-American Studies at Columbia University. Marable authored fifteen books including Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for History.
Austin McCoy is an assistant professor of history at West Virginia University, specializing in African American History, labor history, social movements, and hip-hop culture. He is the author of Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age: The Music, Culture, and World De La Soul Made.
