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Detroit in Literature.” Teaching Space, Place, and Literature Detroit Literature, Language, and Culture Bibliography of Scholarship, Criticism, and Commentary Updated May 2019 Compiled by Frank D. Rashid and Felicia M. Davis Abel, Richard. “House Organs and the Detroit Weekly Film News in the 1910s.” Film History: An International Journal 27, no. 3 (2015): 137-59. doi:10.2979/filmhistory.27.3.137. Abraham, Nabeel and Andrew Shryock, eds. Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000. ———, Sally Howell, and Andrew Shryock, eds. Arab Detroit 9/11: Life in the Terror Decade. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2011. Albiez, Sean. “Post-Soul Futurama: African American Cultural Politics and Early Detroit Techno.” European Journal of American Culture 24, no. 2 (2005): 131-52. doi:10.1386/ejac.24.2.131/1. Ampadu, Lena. “The Message Is in the Melody: An Interview with Dudley Randall.” Callaloo 2, no. 2 (1999): 438-445. doi:10.1353/cal.1999.0063. 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