Beautiful WastelandAccording to popular media and scholarship, Detroit, the once vibrant city that crumbled with the departure of the auto industry, is where dreams can be reborn. It is a place that, like America itself, is gritty and determined. It has faced the worst kind of adversity, and supposedly now its back. But what does this narrative of new Detroit leave out? Beautiful Wasteland reveals that the contemporary story of Detroits rebirth is an upcycled version of