The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
Thomas J. Sugrue
416 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0691121869
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Language: English
Publish: 1124607600000
American HistoryCitiesHistoryNonfictionPoliticsRaceSociologyUrbanUrban PlanningUrban Studies
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.