Look Inside Detroit Never Left Black Space, White Borders, Latino Crossing

Author Nicole E. Trujillo-Pagán discusses her recent book; Detroit Never Left: Black Space, White Borders, Latino Crossings. Detroit seemed to experience an explosive rebirth following its bankruptcy, the largest in US municipal history. It was as if the slate had been wiped clean and the color line erased in the nation’s largest Black city. Detroit Never Left explains the relation between racism and space by analyzing the ways opportunities changed in the years leading up to and following bankruptcy. Based on a variety of data, including in-depth interviews with people who identify as “Latina/o/x” in their early 20s, ethnographic observatio