Bibliograph

Origins of the urban crisis, race and inequality in postwar Detroit, Thomas J. Sugrue

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Origins of the urban crisis, race and inequality in postwar Detroit, Thomas J. Sugrue

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Origins of the urban crisis

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Thomas J. Sugrue

Series statement

Princeton studies in American politics : historical, international, and comparative perspectivesPrinceton classics

Sub title

race and inequality in postwar Detroit

Summary

Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's racial and economic inequalities, 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. This Princeton Classics edition includes a new preface by Sugrue, discussing the lasting impact of the postwar transformation on urban America and the chronic issues leading to Detroit's bankruptcy

Target audience

adult

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