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The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton Studies in American Politics)

The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton Studies in American Politics)

by ThomasSugrue (Author)

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    Paperback 1998

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Once America's arsenal of democracy, Detroit has become the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's dilemma of racial and economic inequality, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 408
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 26 May 1998
ISBN 10: 0691058881
ISBN 13: 9780691058887
Book Overview: Winner of the 1997 Philip Taft prize for Labor History

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Winner of the 1998 Bancroft Prize in American History
Winner of the 1996 President's Book Award, Social Science History Association
One of Choice's Outstanding AcademicTitles for 1997
In this important new history of post-World War II Detroit, Sugrue solidly refutes conservative theories about welfare dependency and deepens liberal thinking about the underlying causes of urban poverty.---Jim McNeil, In These Times
Winner of the 1997 Philip Taft Prize in Labor History
Winner of the 1997 Best Book in North American Urban History Award, Urban History Association
Perhaps by offering a clearer picture of how the urban crisis began, Sugrue brings us a little closer to finding a way to end it.---Jim McNeill, In These Times
This superb study offers a richly detailed account of the rise and fall of twentieth-century Detroit.... Must reading for ... everyone concerned about the current urban crisis. --Jacqueline Jones, author of The Dispossessed: America's Underclass from the Civil War to the Present
Sugrue's incredibly rich, nuanced, multilayered account of the transformation of Detroit provides the historical perspective missing in virtually all accounts of the crisis ravaging today's inner cities. --Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class
Author Bio
Thomas J. Sugrue is Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.