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The Revolution Will Be Community Grown: Food Justice in the Urban Agriculture Movement of Detroit

James Tolleson

Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings

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This essay considers what may become of a manufacturing city like Detroit, once called the "arsenal of democracy," after being abandoned by industry, asking whether such cities can be rebuilt and redefined as models of self-reliant, sustainable, multicultural twenty-first-century communities, and situates Detroit's urban agriculture movement within that food-justice framing.