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• W64157443 abstract "In November of 2005, controversy arose when the Detroit Pistons visited the Sacramento Kings to play for the first time that basketball season. (1) During pre-game ceremonies, the Kings franchise screened a denigrating photographic montage on Arco Arena's scoreboard display to taunt the visiting Pistons, who were fresh from a second consecutive appearance in the NBA's championship series. Yet the slideshow display did not take any of the Detroit players into its scope of attack. Instead, as ESPN.com reported that evening, [w]hen the Detroit Pistons were introduced before [the] game, the Arco Arena scoreboard flashed images of abandoned buildings, burned-out cars--nearly every outdated, offensive stereotype of their hometown (Prince). That the Kings' events coordinators should try to unsettle the Pistons by flaunting images of Detroit's urban decay was ironic on one level, of course, given that the Pistons' true hometown--that is, the location of their home arena, The Palace--is Auburn Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit that is markedly free from decay. Nevertheless, in the minor storm that followed, this detail was lost to the media's uncritical reporting of the event as a simultaneous affront to the city of Detroit and to the Pistons as their fearless representatives. After the Pistons thrashed the Kings soundly in the game itself, Detroit forward Rasheed Wallace grinned and proclaimed, Don't tread on D., as though the Pistons' victory had been adequate defense of a neighborhood under assault by disrespecting outsiders. (2) I cite this episode by way of introduction, for what I see as the two recurring tropes from contemporary American culture that the story offers about the city of Detroit. The first of these is staked on a claim to objectivity, on mere physical survey: that the city of Detroit lies in ruins, that it exists primarily now as a fallen metropolis of abandoned buildings, rusted cars, and flame-blackened houses where nobody lives. Detroit, for example, enjoys an iconographic prominence in Camilo Jose Vergara's 1999 photo-essay American Ruins, a visual catalog of urban decay that records the physical erosion of American inner-cities. (3) Or consider the sheer volume of visual information that artist Lowell Boileau has amassed for his online project, The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit. Boileau's site boasts over a thousand individual pages, and includes subcategories to distinguish between industrial, commercial, and residential ruins. Presumably, then, the factuality (and high visibility) of Detroit's physical collapse is so recognizable that the Sacramento Kings' assault through images of urban decay needed no explanation. The belittling intention of the scoreboard juxtaposition effectively spoke for itself, because to mention Detroit is always to refer to a city in shambles. The second trope that the Pistons-Kings anecdote introduces less overtly--and not so much through the facts of the episode itself, but, more specifically, through the media's reporting of the event--concerns Detroit's inferred racial character. In American culture, Detroit is frequently cast as a city, but by this, I do not refer merely to the factuality of demographics. (Indeed, a quick survey of Detroit's census data from the middle of the twentieth century onward confirms the city's statistical shift to an African-American majority in the decades following the Second World War. (4)) Instead, I refer to the way that representations of Detroit (in both fictive and non-fictive texts) frequently impose a monolithic, fantastical vision of African-American identity onto the city's cultural character. That is, if Detroit's physical makeup equals ruin and decay, then its cultural disposition is decidedly black and marginal: vernacular in speech, below middle class in its economic character, and aggressively different from an assumed, but unarticulated, white mainstream norm in its countenance. Rasheed Wallace's vindictive exhortation (Don't tread on D. …" @default.
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• W64157443 title "True Tales and 8 Mile Memoirs: Exploring the Imaginary City of Detroit" @default.
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