THE ORIGINS OF THE URBAN CRISIS by Thomas J. Sugrue ( 9780691121864 )

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Title:

THE ORIGINS OF THE URBAN CRISIS
RACE AND INEQUALITY IN POSTWAR DETROIT

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0691121869

ISBN 13:

9780691121864

Publisher:

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 August, 2005

Series:

Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International and

Pages:

416

Description:

Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit has become the symbol of the American urban crisis. This title explains how Detroit and many other once prosperous industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty.

Synopsis:

Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit over the last fifty years has become the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of racial and economic inequality in modern America, Thomas Sugrue explains how Detroit and many other once prosperous 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. Probing beneath the veneer of 1950s prosperity and social consensus, Sugrue traces the rise of a new ghetto, solidified by changes in the urban economy and labor market and by racial and class segregation.In this provocative revision of postwar American history, Sugrue finds cities already fiercely divided by race and devastated by the exodus of industries. He focuses on urban neighborhoods, where white working-class homeowners mobilized to prevent integration as blacks tried to move out of the crumbling and overcrowded inner city.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. In a new preface, Sugrue discusses the ongoing legacies of the postwar transformation of urban America and engages recent scholars who have joined in the reassessment of postwar urban, political, social, and African American history.

Illustrations:

29 halftones. 17 tables. 10 maps.

Publication:

Imprint:

Princeton University Press

Prizes:

Winner of Bancroft Prizes 1998 Winner of Urban History Association Best Book in North American Urban Runner-up for Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 1997

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Non-returnable

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