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The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
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1998
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Public PolicyUrban CrisisUrban TheoryUrban SocietySociologyAfrican American StudiesUrban EconomicsCivil RightsUrban Social JusticePostwar DetroitEducationUrban HistoryEconomic InequalityUrban PoliticsThomas SugrueAmerican Urban CrisisSocial SciencesRace
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.