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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.

Publisher:

Princeton University Press,

Copyright Date:

c1996

Description:

xviii, 375 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Racism--Detroit.--Detroit.
Poverty--Detroit.--Detroit.
Afro-Americans--Detroit--Detroit--Economic conditions.
Detroit (Mich.)--Social conditions.
Detroit (Mich.)--Economic conditions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.

Series:

Princeton studies in American politics.

ISBN:

9780691011011 (cl : alk. paper)
069101101X (cl : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)34472849

LCCN:

96013694

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)