![]() ![]() ![]() He found that the story was not all gloom and doom - that there were signs of vitality as residents tried to re-make their lives in a kind of post-apocalyptic landscape. ![]() Not a narrative of despair but one of resilience - even, possibly, renaissance.Ī native of Detroit who left to work as a journalist, Binelli went back in 2009 to find out what was happening in the wake of the Great Recession. But journalist Mark Binelli is also interested in a more nuanced narrative. But Detroit has long been falling on hard times, and its impending bankruptcy is the final nail in the coffin.ĭetroit’s trajectory from pioneer boom town to Motor City to postindustrial ruin is part of American myth. ![]() On DecemJudge Stephen Rhodes ruled the city of Detroit eligible for bankruptcy. Once Detroit was known as the birthplace of the middle class, a place of good jobs offering opportunity to poor African Americans migrating from the South, impoverished European immigrants seeking a better life and migrants from hardbitten rural areas. It goes beyond the narrative of apocalypse to explore the resilience of Detroit’s residents as Binelli “tracks both the blight and the signs of its repurposing.” Mark Binelli talks about his book, Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS Mark Binelli ![]()
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