The Origins of the Urban Crisis - Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit Revised & Updated Edition

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.

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• Authors: Thomas Sugrue, Thomas J Sugrue, Thomas J. Sugrue
• Assisted by: Thomas J. Sugrue (Foreword)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.04.2014
• EAN: 9780691162553
• ISBN: 978-0-691-16255-3
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 220 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Princeton Studies in American; Princeton Classics; Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives; Princeton Studies in American; Princeton Studies in American Politics
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Michigan, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Urban communities, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)