The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit by Thomas J. Sugrue

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

Thomas J. Sugrue

375 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 becom...

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