A Logic of Care and Black Grassroots Claims to Home in Detroit.

This article examines the ways in which Detroit Eviction Defense (DED) and other activist organisations employ a logic of care to argue for Black Detroiters' right to define who may claim home and place in the city. The article uses the foreclosure case of longtime Detroiter Lela Whitfield to examine the ways in which DED successfully resists eviction by arguing publicly that legitimate claims to land and home should be based on how one cares for it-in terms of stewardship, in terms of relationships on and with places, and based on how one uses it. This essay argues that this logic of care has roots in a Black radical tradition and in the particular conditions of racial capitalism in Detroit. Ultimately, DED and other Detroiters offer care as an alternate logic to resist "racial banishment" and establish alternate place-claiming logics in the context of urban housing crisis, austerity, and financialisation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]