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

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Author / Creator:	Sugrue, Thomas J., 1962-
Imprint:	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1996.
Description:	xviii, 375 p.
Language:	English
Series:	Princeton studies in American politics
Subject:	Racism -- Michigan -- Detroit. Poverty -- Michigan -- Detroit. African Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Economic conditions. Detroit (Mich.) -- Social conditions. African Americans -- Economic conditions. African Americans -- Social conditions. Economic history. Poverty. Race relations. Racism. Detroit (Mich.) -- Economic conditions. Michigan -- Detroit. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2564043

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ISBN:	069101101X (cl : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Pt.1. Arsenal
1. "Arsenal of Democracy"
2. "Detroit's Time Bomb": Race and Housing in the 1940s
3. "The Coffin of Peace": The Containment of Public Housing
Pt. 2. Rust
4. "The Meanest and the Dirtiest Jobs": The Structures of Employment Discrimination
5. "The Damning Mark of False Prosperities": The Deindustrialization of Detroit
6. "Forget about Your Inalienable Right to Work": Responses to Industrial Decline and Discrimination
Pt. 3. Fire
7. Class, Status, and Residence: The Changing Geography of Black Detroit
8. "Homeowners' Rights": White Resistance and the Rise of Antiliberalism
9. "United Communities Are Impregnable": Violence and the Color Line
Conclusion. Crisis: Detroit and the Fate of Postindustrial America
App. A. Index of Dissimilarity, Blacks and Whites in Major American Cities, 1940-1990
App. B. African American Occupational Structure in Detroit, 1940-1970
List of Abbreviations in the Notes
Notes
Index

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