Unfinished Business: Michael Jackson, Detroit & the Figural Economy of American Industrialization

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By Judith Hamera

Published Dec. 14, 2017

Princeton professor Judith Hamera argues that U.S. deindustrialization cannot be understood apart from issues of race. Unfinished Business (Oxford University Press) insists that Michael Jackson’s performances and plays featuring Detroit teach us something valuable about decades of structural economic transition in the United States.

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