Abstract
Excerpts are presented from each of three acts of The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit, a play that tells the story of a Black man and a White woman, who grow up in the same neighborhood, survive the 1967 riots/rebellion together, and meet again 40 years later. Ruins is based on the author’s autoethnography, oral histories, archival materials, and the imaginative re-creation of actual events.
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