The origins of the urban crisis : race and inequality in postwar Detroit /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1996] |
| Series: | Princeton studies in American politics.
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Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Pt.1. Arsenal
- 1. "Arsenal of Democracy"
- 2. "Detroit's Time Bomb": Race and Housing in the 1940s
- 3. "The Coffin of Peace": The Containment of Public Housing
- Pt. 2. Rust
- 4. "The Meanest and the Dirtiest Jobs": The Structures of Employment Discrimination
- 5. "The Damning Mark of False Prosperities": The Deindustrialization of Detroit
- 6. "Forget about Your Inalienable Right to Work": Responses to Industrial Decline and Discrimination
- Pt. 3. Fire
- 7. Class, Status, and Residence: The Changing Geography of Black Detroit
- 8. "Homeowners' Rights": White Resistance and the Rise of Antiliberalism
- 9. "United Communities Are Impregnable": Violence and the Color Line
- Conclusion. Crisis: Detroit and the Fate of Postindustrial America
- App. A. Index of Dissimilarity, Blacks and Whites in Major American Cities, 1940-1990
- App. B. African American Occupational Structure in Detroit, 1940-1970
- List of Abbreviations in the Notes
- Notes
- Index