Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-267) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: "Never can say goodbye": US deindustrialization as unfinished business -- Part I: Michael Jackson's spectacular deindustriality. The labors of Michael Jackson: transitional deindustriality, dance, and virtuous(o) work -- Consuming passions, wasted efforts: Michael Jackson's financial( -ized) melodramas -- Part II: Detroit's deindustrial homeplaces. Combustible hopes on the national stage: figuring race, work, and home in ("not necessarily" Detroit -- Up from the ashes: art in Detroit's emerging Phoenix narrative -- Coda: Still unfinished ...
Summary:
Unfinished Business argues that American deindustrialization cannot be separated from issues of race, specifically from figurations of, and performances by and about, African Americans that represent or resist normative or aberrant relationships to work and capital in transitional times.
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