In this interview, Peter D. Blackmer, Assistant Professor of Africology and African American Studies at the Eastern Michigan University, spoke to us from Detroit to discuss the value of grassroots perspectives in urban research and oral history as a method.
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Plummer, B. G. In Search of Power: African Americans in the Era of Decolonization, 1956–1974 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012).
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Laskey, A.B. The power of oral history and grassroots voices in urban research. Nat Cities 1, 254–256 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-024-00053-5
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