The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
By (author): "Thomas J. Sugrue"
Publish Date:
December 1st 1996
ISBN0691121869
ISBN139780691121864
AsinThe Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
Original titleThe Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton Studies in American Politics)
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.