THE PROBLEMATIQUE OF RAGE REPRESENTING IN THE “URBAN” a critical essay on TAKING BACK URBAN POLITICS
However Merrifield’s 9th chapter Taking Back Urban Politics focuses to claim how the capitalist mode of production gave shape to the city “though its own presence” and “industrial image”, and the absence of the image structures it either; the text constitute a virtual narrative of the Detroit city and African-American people relationship through two films, Finally Got the News and Taking Back Detroit which witnessed critical milestones of the class struggle in the city. Merrifield reminds that immigration of African-American workforce half of the 20th century from rural South to industrialized North got along with financial inequality and police brutality in workplaces as well as streets. At the same time, he mentions Detroit’s suffer from “urbicide”, gentrification, public supported private capital investment and changing city fabric as many post-industrial cities in USA. Figure 1: Overview graph of the relationship between…show more content… I think Finally Got the News and Taking Back Detroit are very valuable to understand Detroit’s economic, social context and historical continuity in which working-class African-American people struggle is embedded, and thus, which intellectual framework it fulfills and which meaning whole it is a part of. Finally Got the News (1970) holds cross-reference to revolutionary Soviet cinema technique as well as blues songs and basically narrates the activities of League of Revolutionary Black Workers in 1969 and 1970, while Taking Back Detroit (1980) is a product of late 1970s and about the challenges of two socialist citywide office members and their organization namely DARE. For me, the key dissimilarity represented in these two films, so in two periods, is types of movement. Here a comparison of manner of struggles
