Afterculture: Detroit and the Humiliation of History

by Jerry Herron

Book Overview

AfterCulture is a book of essays about the making and un-making of middle-class culture, a phenomenon which has occurred nowhere more decisively than in America's most representative city, Detroit. In this insightful book, Jerry Herron analyzes what has happened since the decline of middle-class culture in Detroit, a city he labels the first postmodern city, because it exemplifies the failure of traditional history to make sense of contemporary urban...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814320716
• ISBN13: 9780814320716
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.8"