Once America's "arsenal of democracy;" Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America’s racial and economic inequalities; Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other 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. 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.This Princeton Classics edition includes a new preface by Sugrue; discussing the lasting impact of the postwar transformation on urban America and the chronic issues leading to Detroit’s bankruptcy.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. easy to readBy niculescu danThe book was instructive; easy to read; well organized and author's style was nice. I don't share all the author's opinions about the empire; mainly those that view empire as a good social and administrative form of governance but I understand the present trend as well as the melancholy for the past. The present world society hasn't got charismatic leaders so a regret for the past is normal.
