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
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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 o.
Physical Description:1 online resource (432 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9781400851218

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