Unfinished Business: Michael Jackson, Detroit, and the Figural Economy of American Deindustrialization

by Judith Hamera

Book Overview

How does structural economic change look and feel? How are such changes normalized? Who represents hope? Who are the cautionary tales? Unfinished Business argues that U.S. deindustrialization cannot be understood apart from issues of race, and specifically apart from images of, and works by and about African Americans that represent or resist normative or aberrant relationships to work and capital in transitional times. It insists that Michael Jackson's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199348596
• ISBN13: 9780199348596
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"