*Marvin Surkin, PhD, Political Science, New York University, New York, NY is a specialist in comparative urban politics and social change. He conducts workshops on Workplace and Community Organizing, Urban Political Economy, and Urban Renewal in the U.S.A. and its Significance for Development in the Third World, and Comparative Urban Architecture.
Surkin worked at the center of League of Revolutionary Black workers in Detroit.
*Dan Georgakas is a writer, historian, and activist with a long-time interest in social movements. He co-edited Solidarity Forever: An Oral History of the IWW, Encyclopedia of the American Left, and The Immigrant Left in the United States. Dan Georgakas is a longtime editor of Cineaste magazine and has contributed to numerous film anthologies and other film journals. Dan Georgakas founded the Greek American Committee of the Modern Greek Studies Association and has contributed to numerous ethnic journals and newspapers. His memoir is My Detroit, Growing Up Greek and American in Motor City. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

"Detroit: I Do Mind Dying is a beautiful, riveting account of one of the most important radical movements of our century-a movement led by black revolutionaries whose vision of emancipation for all is sorely needed today."
-Robin D.G. Kelley

"A historical narrative of the single most significant political experience of the 1960s."
-Fredric Jameson

"First-rate and absolutely fascinating. This particular piece of American history has never been covered in such depth... everyone who is concerned with political change will learn a lot from this book."
-New York Times

"Detroit: I Do Mind Dying is a beautiful, riveting account of one of the most important radical movements of our century-a movement led by black revolutionaries whose vision of emancipation for all is sorely needed today."
--Robin D.G. Kelley

"A historical narrative of the single most significant political experience of the 1960s."
--Fredric Jameson

"First-rate and absolutely fascinating. This particular piece of American history has never been covered in such depth... everyone who is concerned with political change will learn a lot from this book."
--New York Times

Publisher: Haymarket Books

Pub date: 2012-08-21

Length: 250 pages