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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Thomas J Sugrue |
| ISBN: | 069101101X 9780691011011 0691058881 9780691058887 |
| OCLC Number: | 34472849 |
| Description: | xviii, 375 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | "Arsenal of democracy" -- "Detroit's time bomb": race and housing in the 1940s -- "The coffin of peace": the containment of public housing -- "The meanest and the 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 -- Class, status, and residence: the changing geography of black Detroit -- "Homeowners' rights": white resistance and the rise of antiliberalism -- "United communities are impregnable": violence and the color line -- Crisis: Detroit and the fate of postindustrial America. |
| Series Title: | Princeton studies in American politics. |
| Responsibility: | Thomas J. Sugrue. |
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Perhaps by offering a clearer picture of how the urban crisis began, Sugrue brings us a little closer to finding a way to end it.
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- African Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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- Detroit <Mich.>
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