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Author Sugrue, Thomas J., 1962-

Title The origins of the urban crisis : race and inequality in postwar Detroit / Thomas J. Sugrue.

Publication Info. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1996]
©1996

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 Moore Stacks  F574.D 49 N4835 1996    Available  ---
Description xviii, 375 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Series Princeton studies in American politics
Princeton studies in American politics.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-364) and index.
Contents "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 inalienable 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 -- Crisis: Detroit and the fate of postindustrial America.
Subject Racism -- Michigan -- Detroit.
Racism.
Michigan -- Detroit.
Poverty -- Michigan -- Detroit.
Poverty.
African Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Economic conditions.
African Americans.
Economic conditions.
Detroit (Mich.) -- Economic conditions.
Detroit (Mich.) -- Social conditions.
Racism.
ISBN 069101101X cl alkaline paper