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Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution (Updated Edition) (South End Press Classics Series) | 
| Authors: Dan Georgakas, Marvin Surkin
Publisher: South End Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 288620
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 254
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 0896085716
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.896073077434
EAN: 9780896085718
ASIN: 0896085716
Publication Date: July 1, 1999
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Yes, Militant Black Unionists Do/Did Exist! May 6, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The League of Revolutionary Black Workers, Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, and the rest of the "RUM"s in the Detroit area are all examples of the radical, black, socialist organizations discussed in this book. If your looking for a book that uses straight language and personal stories to provide a glimpse into an often neglected apect of US labor history then start here.
Also, the Updated Edition also has a nice introductory piece by Manning Marable as well as short reflective chapters written by members of the movements that the book concerns itself with.
Another book worth reading on this era from a more academic perspective is "Class, Race, and Worker Insurgency:The League of Revolutionary Black Workers" by James A. Geschwender.
 Pages missing January 10, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
The content of the book is fine. The production of the book is poor. My first copy came with 15 pages missing. The second copy came with 15 different pages missing. The publisher cannot promise a complete book for some time, so I would not suggest that anyone order it any time soon.
 An example for trade unionists and anti-racists. January 28, 1999
15 out of 18 found this review helpful
We often here about the 1960s as a time of radicalization for students and mystical urban heroes. Rarely is the working-class and trade union struggle ever revealed. Partly that is because working-class struggle was not at the heart of the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement. But Detroit: I Do Mind Dying tells a different story; one of a core of revolutionaries in the industrial heart of America within a union with a radical past. These black revolutionaries take on the racism of the bosses, as well as the racism of the union beauracracy, in a daring and valliant attempt to bring about real social change. Some lessons for activists, trade unionists, and socialists today are included by the authors. Questions of organizing white workers; the need for a national party; wildcat strikes to take on both the company and the union beauracracy; and the need to have an international perspective. All of theses lessons are brought forth from the struggles of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers and all of the Revolutionary Union Movements in the Detroit area. A must read for activists today.
Somebody please reprint this book!! August 15, 1997
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
This is simply the best book written on the radicalization of the Black (and white/arab/latino) industrial working class in the late 1960's and early 1970's. It is also rich in lessons for radical unionists and socialists today. With all the academic presses churning out tome after tome on "race relations" why doesn't one of them pick up this fascinating book
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