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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sugrue, Thomas J., 1962-
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Edition:First Princeton classics edition.
Series:Princeton studies in American politics.
Princeton classics.
Subjects:
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.
Detroit (Mich.) > Economic conditions > 20th century.
Detroit (Mich.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Detroit (Mich.) > Race relations.
African Americans > Economic conditions.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Economic history.
Poverty.
Race relations.
Racism.
Social history.
Michigan > Detroit.
1900 - 1999
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:liv, 375 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Format: Book
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.