Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution [Revised Edition] (Haymarket Classics) - Softcover

Georgakas, Dan; Surkin, Marvin

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798888909614

Publisher: Haymarket Books, 2026

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798888909614
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328