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: 9780691058887

ISBN-10: 0691058881

ISBN-13: 9780691058887

Edition: 1996

Authors: Thomas J. Sugrue

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List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 5/3/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 3
Arsenal	p. 15
"Arsenal of Democracy"	p. 17
"Detroit's Time Bomb": Race and Housing in the 1940s	p. 33
"The Coffin of Peace": The Containment of Public Housing	p. 57
Rust	p. 89
"The Meanest and the Dirtiest Jobs": The Structures of Employment Discrimination	p. 91
"The Damning Mark of False Prosperities": The Deindustrialization of Detroit	p. 125
"Forget about Your Inalienable Right to Work": Responses to Industrial Decline and Discrimination	p. 153
Fire	p. 179
Class, Status, and Residence: The Changing Geography of Black Detroit	p. 181
"Homeowners' Rights": White Resistance and the Rise of Antiliberalism	p. 209
"United Communities Are Impregnable": Violence and the Color Line	p. 231
Conclusion. Crisis: Detroit and the Fate of Postindustrial America	p. 259
Index of Dissimilarity, Blacks and Whites in Major American Cities, 1940-1990	p. 273
African American Occupational Structure in Detroit, 1940-1970	p. 275
List of Abbreviations in the Notes	p. 279
Notes	p. 281
Index	p. 365
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