The Origins of the Urban Crisis : Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit - 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sugrue, Thomas J., 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social conditions
Racism.
Race relations.
Poverty.
Economic history.
African Americans > Social conditions.
African Americans > Economic conditions.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Pauvrete > Michigan > Detroit > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Racisme > Michigan > Detroit > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Michigan > Detroit > Conditions economiques > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Michigan > Detroit > Conditions sociales > 20e siecle.
Poverty > Michigan > Detroit > History > 20th century.
Racism > Michigan > Detroit > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Michigan > Detroit > Economic conditions > 20th century.
African Americans > Michigan > Detroit > Social conditions > 20th century.
Michigan > Detroit.
Detroit (Mich.) > Race relations.
Detroit (Mich.) > Economic conditions > 20th century.
Detroit (Mich.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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