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

Thomas J. Sugrue
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page ix)
  • List of Tables (page xiii)
  • Acknowledgments (page xv)
  • Introduction (page 3)
  • PART ONE: ARSENAL (page 15)
  • 1. "Arsenal of Democracy" (page 17)
  • 2. "Detroit's Time Bomb": Race and Housing in the 1940s (page 33)
  • 3. "The Coffin of Peace": The Containment of Public Housing (page 57)
  • PART TWO: RUST (page 89)
  • 4. "The Meanest and Dirtiest Jobs": The Structures of Employment Discrimination (page 91)
  • 5. "The Damning Mark of False Prosperities": The Deindustrialization of Detroit (page 125)
  • 6. "Forget about Your Inalienable Right to Work": Responses to Industrial Decline and Discrimination (page 153)
  • PART THREE: FIRE (page 179)
  • 7. Class, Status, and Residence: The Changing Geography of Black Detroit (page 181)
  • 8. "Homeowners' Rights": White Resistance and the Rise of Antiliberalism (page 209)
  • 9. "United Communities Are Impregnable": Violence and the Color Line (page 231)
  • Conclusion. Crisis: Detroit and the Fate of Postindustrial America We Shall Rise Again from the Ashes We Hope for Better Things (page 259)
  • Appendix A. Index of Dissimilarity, Blacks and Whites in Major American Cities, 1940-1990 (page 273 )
  • Appendix B. African American Occupational Structure in Detroit, 1940-1970 (page 275 )
  • List of Abbreviations in the Notes (page 279 )
  • Notes (page 281 )
  • Index (page 365 )
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AJS 103.4 (Jan. 1998): 1131-1132 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9602%28199801%29103%3A4%3C1131%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-U
AHR 103.5 (Dec. 1998): 1718-1719 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28199812%29103%3A5%3C1718%3ATOOTUC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I
JAH 84.4 (Mar. 1998): 1549-1550 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723%28199803%2984%3A4%3C1549%3ATOOTUC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z
JP 60.1 (Feb. 1998): 256-257 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-3816%28199802%2960%3A1%3C256%3ATOOTUC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-F
RAH 25.4 (Dec. 1997): 667-673
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Published: c1996
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780691058887 (paper)
  • 9780691011011 (hardcover)
Subject
  • American: 1900-present
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