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

ISBN: 9780691121864 | 0691121869

Edition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 8/1/2005

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Summary Table of Contents

Thomas J. Sugrue is Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.

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

Historian Thomas Sugrue weaves together the history of workplaces, unions, civil... MORE

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

xiii

Preface to the Princeton Classic Edition

Acknowledgments

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Introduction

(12)

PART ONE: ARSENAL

(74)

``Arsenal of Democracy''

(16)

``Detroit's Time Bomb'': Race and Housing in the 1940s

(24)

``The Coffin of Peace'': The Containment of Public Housing

(32)

PART TWO: RUST

(90)

``The Meanest and the Dirtiest Jobs'': The Structures of Employment Discrimination

(34)

``The Damning Mark of False Prosperities'': The Deindustrialization of Detroit

125

(28)

``Forget about Your Inalienable Right to Work'': Responses to Industrial Decline and Discrimination

153

(26)

PART THREE: FIRE

179

(80)

Class, Status, and Residence: The Changing Geography of Black Detroit

181

(28)

``Homeowners' Rights'': White Resistance and the Rise of Antiliberalism

209

(22)

``United Communities Are Impregnable'': Violence and the Color Line

231

(28)

Conclusion. Crisis: Detroit and the Fate of Postindustrial America

259

(20)

Appendixes

A. Index of Dissimilarity, Blacks and Whites in Major American Cities, 1940--1990

273

(2)

B. African American Occupational Structure in Detroit, 1940--1970

275

(4)

List of Abbreviations in the Notes

279

(2)

Notes

281

(84)

Index

365

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