Title The origins of the urban crisis : race and inequality in postwar Detroit / Thomas J. Sugrue

Edition First Princeton Classics edition Published New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2014 ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (liv, 375 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Princeton studies in American politics : historical, international, and comparative perspectives Princeton classics Princeton studies in American politics. Princeton classics. Contents Introduction -- "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 unalienable 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 -- Conclusion. Crisis : Detroit and the fate of postindustrial America Summary Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit has become the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's racial and economic inequalities, the author 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 the author, discussing the lasting impact of the postwar transformation on urban America and the chronic issues leading to Detroit's bankruptcy Notes "Winner of the Bancroft Prize in American History."--Cover "With a new preface by the author."--Cover Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-364) and index Notes English Print version record Subject African Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Social conditions -- 20th century African Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Economic conditions -- 20th century Racism -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History -- 20th century Poverty -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History -- 20th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) African Americans -- Economic conditions African Americans -- Social conditions Economic history Poverty Race relations Racism Social conditions SUBJECT Detroit (Mich.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century Detroit (Mich.) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century Detroit (Mich.) -- Race relations Subject Michigan -- Detroit Genre/Form dissertations. History Academic theses. Thèses et écrits académiques. Form Electronic book LC no. 2013957570 ISBN 9781400851218 1400851211 130670720X 9781306707206

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