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

thomas j. sugrue

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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 become the sites of persistent racialized poverty.

416 pages, Paperback

First published December 1,1996
Literary awards
bancroft prize, philip taft labor history book award, 
Places
detroit michigan, 

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416 pages, Paperback
Published
August 21, 2005 by Princeton University Press
ISBN
9780691121864
ASIN
0691121869
Language
English

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