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Books : The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton Studies in American Politics)In association with Amazon.comby: Thomas J. Sugrue  List Price: $24.95 Amazon.com's Price: $22.45 You Save: $2.50 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 3 weeks
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 305.800977434 EAN: 9780691121864 ISBN: 0691121869 Label: Princeton University Press Manufacturer: Princeton University Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 416 Publication Date: August 01, 2005 Publisher: Princeton University Press Studio: Princeton University Press Sales Rank: 5742 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit over the last fifty years has become the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of racial and economic inequality in modern America, Thomas Sugrue explains how Detroit and many other once prosperous 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. Probing beneath the veneer of 1950s prosperity and social consensus, Sugrue traces the rise of a new ghetto, solidified by changes in the urban economy and labor market and by racial and class segregation. In this provocative revision of postwar American history, Sugrue finds cities already fiercely divided by race and devastated by the exodus of industries. He focuses on urban neighborhoods, where white working-class homeowners mobilized to prevent integration as blacks tried to move out of the crumbling and overcrowded inner city. 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. In a new preface, Sugrue discusses the ongoing legacies of the postwar transformation of urban America and engages recent scholars who have joined in the reassessment of postwar urban, political, social, and African American history. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A well-written and unbiased look at the sad story of DetroitAs a resident of the metro Detroit area for the first 30 years of my life who finally fled last year, I write this review with a bit of nostalgic sorrow. What happened to Detroit - formerly the fourth most populous city in the U.S. and once considered the "Paris of the Midwest" - is nothing short of a very sad, sad tale. The Origins of the Urban Crisis does an excellent job at going all the way back to examine the causal factors, with a decidedly un-biased eye. The sad reality is that ... Read More Rating: - Amazing read on historical origins of deindustrialization & the politics of suburbanizaitonfantastic book that argues capitalism generates economic inequalities and African Americans have disproportionately experienced the impact of these inequalities. falls within other books that explore the rise of the new right, but this book is unique in its focus on suburbanization and race. re-periodizes work on deindustrialization, arguing that seeds of the urban crisis were sown in the 40s and 50s- out of the contradictions of New Deal liberalism. this book shows how the racialized ... Read More Rating: - An incredibly important book about racial tensions in the NorthThomas Sugrue, in his classic work The Origins of the Urban Crisis, has given us a case study of a Northern City that has fallen from grace: Detroit, Michigan. Sugrue promotes the theory that the decay of urban America can be explained by reviewing the situation in Detroit. Prior to and during World War II, Detroit was a hopping metropolis - one of many jobs and a mecca for blacks migrating from the South in search of work and a better life. Economics drove this city's growth in industry ... Read More Rating:  - Racism in America Doesn't Come Out of NowhereThomas Sugrue's book The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit aims to take a closer look at the cause and effects of racism and poverty specifically within the context of Detroit. Sugrue's main argument was to debunk previous scholarship that rooted the cause of racial turmoil and poverty within Detroit and other large metropolitan cities in the United States as "excesses of the 1960's liberalism, black power, and identity politics" which unraveled the New Deal gains. (p. ... Read More Rating: - Excellent history of urban declineThis was required reading for a graduate course in American history. Thomas J. Sugrue attempts to prove that resistance to the civil rights movement had much deeper roots than the white backlash of the 1960s and 1970s. The author contends that resistance to the civil rights actually emerged as opposition to the New Deal coalition. Urban, anti-liberal, northern whites, as well as corporate leaders, unionists and politicians limited the possibilities of reform. Sugure maintains that northern urban white ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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