Origins of the Urban Crisis Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit

Name: Origins of the Urban Crisis Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
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ISBN: 9780691121864

ISBN-10: 0691121869

ISBN-13: 9780691121864

Edition: 2nd 2005 (Revised)

Authors: Thomas J. Sugrue, Martin Shefter, Theda Skocpol, Ira Katznelson

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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.

Book details

List price: $30.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 8/21/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 2.24" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



List of Illustrations


List of Tables


Preface to the Princeton Classic Edition


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Arsenal



"Arsenal of Democracy"



"Detroit's Time Bomb": Race and Housing in the 1940s



"The Coffin of Peace": The Containment of Public Housing



Rust



"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



Fire



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






Index of Dissimilarity, Blacks and Whites in Major 273 American Cities, 1940-1990



African American Occupational Structure in Detroit, 275 1940-1970


List of Abbreviations in the Notes


Notes


Index