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

Author: Thomas J. Sugrue Year: 1996 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Award winners, Non Fiction, Politics Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780691121864 0691121869

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 of racial violence, discrimination, and deindustrialization that reshaped the American urban landscape after World War II. This Princeton Classics edition includes a new preface by Sugrue, discussing the lasting impact of the postwar transformation on urban America and the chronic issues leading to Detroit s bankruptcy." Similar books: Sweet Land of Liberty by Thomas J. Sugrue Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff America by Dinesh D'Souza Unfreedom of the Press by Mark R. Levin A Warning by Anonymous American Nations by Colin Woodard Evicted by Matthew Desmond Control by Glenn Beck Licensed to Lie by Sidney Powell The Big Lie by Dinesh D'Souza The Anarchy by William Dalrymple Fascism by Madeleine Albright Ship of Fools by Tucker Carlson If You Can Keep It by Eric Metaxas The Great Game by Peter Hopkirk The Residence by Kate Andersen Brower The Fifties by David Halberstam The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe The Soul of America by Jon Meacham