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OverviewOnce 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Thomas J. SugruePublisher: Princeton University Press Imprint: Princeton University Press Edition: Revised edition Volume: 85 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.567kg ISBN: 9780691121864ISBN 10: 0691121869 Pages: 416 Publication Date: 21 August 2005 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education Replaced By: 9781400851218 Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: In Print  Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Language: English Table of ContentsReviewsPraise for Princeton's previous edition: [Sugrue's] disciplined historical engagement with a complex, often inglorious, past offers a compelling model for understanding how race and the Rust Belt converged to create the current impasse. -- America Praise for Princeton's previous edition: A splendid book that does no less than transform our understanding of United States history after 1940. -- Labor History Praise for Princeton's previous edition: [Sugrue's] disciplined historical engagement with a complex, often inglorious, past offers a compelling model for understanding how race and the Rust Belt converged to create the current impasse. -- America Praise for Princeton's previous edition: A splendid book that does no less than transform our understanding of United States history after 1940. -- Labor History Praise for Princeton's previous edition: [Sugrue's] disciplined historical engagement with a complex, often inglorious, past offers a compelling model for understanding how race and the Rust Belt converged to create the current impasse. America Praise for Princeton's previous edition: A splendid book that does no less than transform our understanding of United States history after 1940. Labor History Winner of the 1998 Bancroft Prize in American History Winner of the 1997 Philip Taft Prize in Labor History Winner of the 1996 President's Book Award, Social Science History Association Winner of the 1997 Best Book in North American Urban History Award, Urban History Association One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1997 Praise for Princeton's previous edition: [Sugrue's] disciplined historical engagement with a complex, often inglorious, past offers a compelling model for understanding how race and the Rust Belt converged to create the current impasse. -- America Praise for Princeton's previous edition: A splendid book that does no less than transform our understanding of United States history after 1940. -- Labor History Author InformationThomas J. Sugrue is Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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