The Origins of the Urban Crisis
by Sugrue, Thomas J.Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-04-01
Publisher(s): Princeton Univ Pr
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Summary
Historian Thomas Sugrue weaves together the history of workplaces, unions, civil rights groups, political organizations, and real estate agencies to show that the roots of today's persistent racialized urban poverty lies in a hidden history of racial violence, discrimination, and deindustrialization that reshaped the American urban landscape after World War II. Illustrated.
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations | |
| List of Tables | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| Arsenal | p. 15 |
| "Arsenal of Democracy" | p. 17 |
| "Detroit's Time Bomb": Race and Housing in the 1940s | p. 33 |
| "The Coffin of Peace": The Containment of Public Housing | p. 57 |
| Rust | p. 89 |
| "The Meanest and the Dirtiest Jobs": The Structures of Employment Discrimination | p. 91 |
| "The Damning Mark of False Prosperities": The Deindustrialization of Detroit | p. 125 |
| "Forget about Your Inalienable Right to Work": Responses to Industrial Decline and Discrimination | p. 153 |
| Fire | p. 179 |
| Class, Status, and Residence: The Changing Geography of Black Detroit | p. 181 |
| "Homeowners' Rights": White Resistance and the Rise of Antiliberalism | p. 209 |
| "United Communities Are Impregnable": Violence and the Color Line | p. 231 |
| Conclusion. Crisis: Detroit and the Fate of Postindustrial America | p. 259 |
| Index of Dissimilarity, Blacks and Whites in Major American Cities, 1940-1990 | p. 273 |
| African American Occupational Structure in Detroit, 1940-1970 | p. 275 |
| List of Abbreviations in the Notes | p. 279 |
| Notes | p. 281 |
| Index | p. 365 |
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