Origins of the Urban Crisis

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.

Autorentext
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.

Zusammenfassung
The reasons behind Detroit's persistent racialized poverty after World War IIOnce America's "e;arsenal of democracy,"e; 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.

Inhalt
List of Illustrations ix
List of Tables xiii
Preface to the Princeton Classics Edition xv
Preface to the 2005 Paperback Edition xxxii
Acknowledgments li
Introduction 3
PART ONE: ARSENAL 15
1. "Arsenal of Democracy" 17
2. "Detroit's Time Bomb": Race and Housing in the 1940s 33
3. "The Coffin of Peace": The Containment of Public Housing 57
PART TWO: RUST 89
4. "The Meanest and the Dirtiest Jobs": The Structures of Employment Discrimination 91
5. "The Damning Mark of False Prosperities": The Deindustrialization of Detroit 125
6. "Forget about Your Inalienable Right to Work": Responses to Industrial Decline and Discrimination 153
PART THREE: FIRE 179
7. Class, Status, and Residence: The Changing Geography of Black Detroit 181
8. "Homeowners' Rights": White Resistance and the Rise of Antiliberalism 209
9. "United Communities Are Impregnable": Violence and the Color Line 231
Conclusion. Crisis: Detroit and the Fate of Postindustrial America 259
Appendixes
A. Index of Dissimilarity, Blacks and Whites in Major American Cities, 1940-1990 273
B. African American Occupational Structure in Detroit, 1940-1970 275
List of Abbreviations in the Notes 279
Notes 281
Index 365

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