The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton Studies in American Politics)

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. Thomas J. Sugrue. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [281]-364) And Index. Frontmatter List of Illustrations (page ix) List of Tables (page xiii) Acknowledgments (page xv) Introduction (page 3) PART ONE: ARSENAL (page 15) 1. "Arsenal of Democracy" (page 17) 2. "Detroit's Time Bomb": Race and Housing in the 1940s (page 33) 3. "The Coffin of Peace": The Containment of Public Housing (page 57) PART TWO: RUST (page 89) 4. "The Meanest and Dirtiest Jobs": The Structures of Employment Discrimination (page 91) 5. "The Damning Mark of False Prosperities": The Deindustrialization of Detroit (page 125) 6. "Forget about Your Inalienable Right to Work": Responses to Industrial Decline and Discrimination (page 153) PART THREE: FIRE (page 179) 7. Class, Status, and Residence: The Changing Geography of Black Detroit (page 181) 8. "Homeowners' Rights": White Resistance and the Rise of Antiliberalism (page 209) 9. "United Communities Are Impregnable": Violence and the Color Line (page 231) Conclusion. Crisis: Detroit and the Fate of Postindustrial America We Shall Rise Again from the Ashes We Hope for Better Things (page 259) Appendix A. Index of Dissimilarity, Blacks and Whites in Major American Cities, 1940-1990 (page 273) Appendix B. African American Occupational Structure in Detroit, 1940-1970 (page 275) List of Abbreviations in the Notes (page 279) Notes (page 281) Index (page 365) 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. [publisher] 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. Once America's "arsenal of democracy", post-war Detroit has become the symbol of the American urban crisis. This reappraisal of America's dilemma of racial and economic inequality, asks why Detroit and many other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. IN 1927, Charles Sheeler photographed the Ford Motor Company's enormous River Rouge plant.