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The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit

Michigan Historical ReviewPublished 1 January 1998
Robert A. Burnham, Thomas J. Sugrue
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Abstract

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.

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Social Sciences