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Author Sugrue, Thomas J., 1962-

Title The origins of the urban crisis : race and inequality in postwar Detroit : with a new preface by the author / Thomas J. Sugrue.

Publication Info. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2005.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.8 S947O    Check Shelf
Edition First Princeton Classic edition.
Description xxxvi, 375 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Series A Princeton classic edition
Princeton studies in American politics
Princeton classic editions.
Princeton studies in American politics.
Contents Arsenal -- Arsenal of democracy -- Detroit's time bomb : race and housing in the 1940s -- The coffin of peace : the containment of public housing -- Rust -- The meanest and 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 -- Fire -- Class, status, and residence: the changing geography of Black Detroit -- Homeowners' rights : White resistance and the rise of antiiberalism -- United communities are impregnable : violence and the color line -- Crisis: Detroit and the fate of postindustrial America.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-364) and index.
Subject African Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
Racism -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History -- 20th century.
Poverty -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History -- 20th century.
Detroit (Mich.) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
Detroit (Mich.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Detroit (Mich.) -- Race relations.
ISBN 0691121869 paperback alkaline paper
Standard No. 9780691121864
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