Description
The reasons behind Detroit's persistent racialized poverty after World War II
Once America's arsenal of democracy, Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. He challenges the conventional wisdom that urban decline is the product of the social programs and racial fissures of the 1960s. 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. This Princeton Classics edition includes a new preface by Sugrue, discussing the lasting impact of the postwar transformation on urban America and the chronic issues leading to Detroit's bankruptcy.Author: Thomas J. Sugrue
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 04/27/2014
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9780691162553
ISBN10: 0691162557
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | 20th Century
- History | United States | State & Local | Midwest(IA,IL,IN,KS,MI,MN,MO
- Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations
About the Author
Thomas J. Sugrue is the David Boies Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race (Princeton) and Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North.