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The origins of the urban crisis : race and inequality in postwar Detroit : with a new preface by the author / Thomas J. Sugrue.
- Title
- The origins of the urban crisis : race and inequality in postwar Detroit : with a new preface by the author / Thomas J. Sugrue.
- Author
- Sugrue, Thomas J., 1962-
- Publication
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2005.
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- Description
- xxxvi, 375 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit has become the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's dilemma of racial and economic inequality, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. He challenges the conventional wisdom that urban decline is the product of the social programs and racial fissures of the 1960s. Weaving together the history of workplaces, unions, civil rights groups, political organizations, and real estate agencies, Sugrue finds the roots of today's urban poverty in a hidden history of racial violence, discrimination, and deindustrialization that reshaped the American urban landscape after World War II."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Princeton studies in American politics
- A Princeton classic edition
- Subjects
- Geschichte 1945-1995
- 1900-1999
- History
- Detroit (Mich.) > Race relations
- Detroit (Mich.) > Social conditions > 20th century
- Detroit (Mich.) > Economic conditions > 20th century
- Poverty > Michigan > Detroit > History > 20th century
- Racism > Michigan > Detroit > History > 20th century
- African Americans > Michigan > Detroit > Economic conditions > 20th century
- African Americans > Michigan > Detroit > Social conditions > 20th century
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-364) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- "Detriot's Time Bomb": race and housing in the 1940s -- "The Damning Mark of False Prosperities": the deindustrialization of Detriot -- Class, status, and residence: the changing geography of Black Detroit -- Crisis: Detroit and the fate of Postindustrial America.
- ISBN
- 0691121869 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2005047695
- 9780691121864
- OCLC
- 59879791
- SCSB-10985513
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library