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Author Sugrue, Thomas J., 1962- author.

Title The origins of the urban crisis : race and inequality in postwar Detroit / Thomas J. Sugrue
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1996

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 375 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Princeton studies in American politics
Princeton studies in American politics.
Contents "Arsenal of democracy" -- "Detroit's time bomb": race and housing in the 1940s -- "The coffin of peace": the containment of public housing -- "The meanest and the dirtiest jobs": the structures of employment discrimination -- "The damning mark of false prosperities": the deindustrialization of Detroit -- "Forget about your inalienable right to work": responses to industrial decline and discrimination -- Class, status, and residence: the changing geography of black Detroit -- "Homeowners' rights": white resistance and the rise of antiliberalism -- "United communities are impregnable": violence and the color line -- Crisis: Detroit and the fate of postindustrial America
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-364) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Racism -- Michigan -- Detroit
Poverty -- Michigan -- Detroit
African Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Economic conditions
Detroit (Mich.) -- Social conditions
African Americans -- Economic conditions
Economic history
Poverty
Racism
SUBJECT Detroit (Mich.) -- Economic conditions
Subject Michigan -- Detroit
Form Electronic book
ISBN 069101101X
9780691011011
0691058881
9780691058887