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Detroit Remains - Archaeology and Community Histories of Six Legendary Places (Paperback)
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Detroit Remains - Archaeology and Community Histories of Six Legendary Places (Paperback)
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An archaeologically grounded history of six legendary places in
Detroit. The city of Detroit has endured periods of unprecedented
industrial growth, decline, and revitalization between the late
nineteenth century and the present. In Detroit Remains: Archaeology
and Community Histories of Six Legendary Places, Krysta Ryzewski
presents six archaeological case studies of legendary Detroit
institutions-Little Harry speakeasy, the Ransom Gillis house, the
Blue Bird Inn, Gordon Park, the Grande Ballroom, and the Halleck
Street log cabin-that trace the contours of the city's
underrepresented communities and their relationship to local
currents of capitalism and social justice. Through a combination of
rigorous historical archaeological research and narrative
storytelling, Ryzewski deftly contextualizes the cases within the
city's current struggles, including recovery from bankruptcy, and
future-oriented recovery efforts. This is the first historical
archaeology book focused on Detroit and one of the few to
foreground the archaeology of the Great Migration era (ca.
1915-1970). The archaeological scholarship is rooted in
collaborative, community-involved, and public-facing initiatives.
The case studies examine how power is and has been exercised in
Detroit's communities over the past century: how it was stripped
from the city's twentieth- and twenty-first-century residents, but
also how they acquired alternative sources of agency by
establishing creative and illicit economies, most of which still
operated within the city's capitalist framework. Throughout this
book, connections run deep between archaeology, heritage, politics,
historic preservation, and storytelling. Detroit Remains
demonstrates how the city's past, present, and future lie not in
ruins but in the tangible archaeological traces of the everyday
lives of Detroiters and their legacies.
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