The origins of the urban crisis : race and inequality in postwar Detroit
In this provocative revision of postwar American history, Sugrue finds cities already fiercely divided by race and devastated by the exodus of industries. He focuses on urban neighborhoods, where white working-class homeowners mobilized to prevent integration as blacks tried to move out of the crumbling and overcrowded inner city. 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. [publisher]
Print Book, English, ©1996
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©1996
History
xviii, 375 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
9780691011011, 9780691058887, 069101101X, 0691058881
34472849
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"Forget about your inalienable right to work": responses to industrial decline and discrimination
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