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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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Auteur principal: Sugrue, Thomas J., 1962- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (432 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9781400851218