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08 Jul 2010
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Jerry Herron @user17 ?
MemberJerry Herron is Professor of English and American Studies and Founding Dean of the Irvin D. Reid Honors College at Wayne State University. His publications include two books, Universities and the Myth of Cultural Decline, and AfterCulture: Detroit and the Humiliation of History. His essays and critical articles have appeared in South Atlantic Quarterly, Raritan, Social Text, Representations, Georgia Review, Antioch Review, and Harper’s. He has also written for the London Times Higher Education Supplement, Detroit News, Hour Detroit, the MetroTimes, and Playboy,. He is currently finishing a book about Americans’ sense of the past: “Not From Detroit: An All-Purpose Guide to American Forgetting.”
Herron was born in Abilene, Texas; he received his BA (with high honors) at the University of Texas in Austin, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. He holds MA and PhD degrees from Indiana University.
Since 1982 he has been a resident of downtown Detroit, a city which has provided him with a great subject to write about and an exceptional place to live.
Contact Information:
ad5017 [at] wayne.edu
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Jerry Herron wrote a new blog post: Borderland/Borderama/Detroit: Part 3 1 year, 10 months ago · View
GAR Building. (Photograph: David Clements)Learning from Detroit So what is there to learn from Detroit? Everything we have forgotten as Americans, including things forgotten by the people still stranded here, whose predicament is no less puzzling to themselves, perhaps, than the luck of those who have managed to escape. To quote another popular local t-shirt: last person to [...]
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Jerry Herron wrote a new blog post: Borderland/Borderama/Detroit: Part 2 1 year, 10 months ago · View
Old train station, Dalzelle Street. (Photograph: Corine Vermeulen)Henry Ford and the Forgetting Machines I doubt that the founder — I mean Henry Ford — ever read Alexis de Tocqueville, or any other writer who might be mistaken for a historian — but he surely understood that Frenchman’s strictures about individualism and its potential for organizing humans into [...]
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Jerry Herron wrote a new blog post: Borderland/Borderama/Detroit: Part 1 1 year, 10 months ago · View
Detroit looks just like a city… Especially at night, from my apartment downtown, with its floor-to-ceiling glass: that’s when Detroit really does look like a city; friends have come over to dinner, 28 floors up, sitting around my table, and inevitably someone turns toward a window and remarks, as if arriving at an original insight, which of course it [...]
