num_pages: 416
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
titlecomplete: The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
genres: Urban, Politics, Nonfiction, Race, Cities, American History, Urban Studies, Sociology, History, Urban Planning
ratings_count: 2093
places: Detroit, Michigan
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Bancroft Prize, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Philip Taft Labor History Book Award
publisher: Princeton University Press