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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sugrue, Thomas J., 1962- author.

Series:

Princeton studies in American politics.

Princeton studies in American politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty--Michigan--Detroit--History--20th century.

Poverty.

Racism--Michigan--Detroit--History--20th century.

Racism.

African Americans--Michigan--Detroit--Economic conditions--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Michigan--Detroit--Social conditions--20th century.

Detroit (Mich.)--Social conditions--20th century.

Detroit (Mich.).

Detroit (Mich.)--Economic conditions.

Detroit (Mich.)--Economic conditions--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (433 pages) : illustrations and maps

Edition:

Updated edition with a New Preface

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue 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 Sugrue, discussing the lasting impact of the postwar transformation on urban America and the chronic issues leading to Detroit's bankruptcy.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Tables

Preface to the Princeton Classics Edition

Preface to the 2005 Edition

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One. Arsenal

1. "Arsenal of Democracy"

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

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

Part Two. Rust

4. "The Meanest and Dirtiest Jobs": The Structures of Employment Discrimination

5. "The Damning Mark of False Prosperities": The Deindustrialization of Detroit

6. "Forget about Your Inalienable Right to Work": Responses to Industrial Decline and Discrimination

Part Three. Fire

7. Class, Status, and Residence: The Changing Geography of Black Detroit

8. "Homeowners' Rights": White Resistance and the Rise of Antiliberalism

9. "United Communities Are Impregnable": Violence and the Color Line

Conclusion. Crisis: Detroit and the Fate of Postindustrial America

Appendix A. Index of Dissimilarity, Blacks and Whites in Major American Cities, 1940-1990

Appendix B. African American Occupational Structure in Detroit, 1940-1970

Abbreviations in the Notes

Notes

Index

Notes:

"Winner of the Bancroft Prize in American history"--Cover.

"With a new preface by the author."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-364) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 14 Apr., 2022)

ISBN:

1-4008-5121-1

OCLC:

1132222285