The origins of the urban crisis : race and inequality in postwar Detroit /

Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit has become the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's racial and economic inequalities, the author asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. He...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sugrue, Thomas J., 1962- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2014
Edición:First Princeton Classics edition.
Colección:Princeton studies in American politics.
Princeton classics.
Temas:
1900-1999
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.
Noirs américains > Michigan > Detroit > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains > Michigan > Detroit > Conditions économiques > 20e siècle.
Racisme > Michigan > Detroit > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Pauvreté > Michigan > Detroit > Histoire > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
African Americans > Economic conditions
African Americans > Social conditions
Economic history
Poverty
Race relations
Racism
Social conditions
Detroit (Mich.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Detroit (Mich.) > Economic conditions > 20th century.
Detroit (Mich.) > Race relations.
Michigan > Detroit
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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