There is near unanimity that the violent response to intrusive police actions at a "blind pig" on 12th Street, Detroit on Sunday, July 23, 1967 was not "a race riot," yet the discourse about the events of "Detroit 1967" are keyed almost exclusively to race and linked to other race disturbances in America between 1965 - 1968. What if the events ensuing from Sunday, July 23, 1967 were not fundamentally about race but something else - something equally powerful but in many ways more *disturbing* - namely, pleasure and the pathologies of pleasure? Michael Stone-Richards proposes a new account of the *trigger* of "Detroit 1967" and the kind of violence that followed as well as how that violence came to be misrecognized and *repressed* in subsequent accounts.