Origins of the urban crisis race and inequality in postwar detroit princeton studies in american politics amazonde sugrue thomas j fremdsprachige bucher. Once americas arsenal of democracy detroit is now the symbol of the american urban crisis in this reappraisal of americas 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 origins of the urban crisis race and inequality in postwar detroit is the first book by historian and detroit native thomas j sugrue in which he examines the role race housing job discrimination and capital flight played in the decline of detroit sugrue argues that the decline of detroit began long before the 1967 race riot sugrue argues that institutionalized and often legalized . Race and inequality in postwar detroit series princeton studies in american politics historical international and comparative perspectives princeton classics note with a new preface by the author awards commended for choice magazine outstanding reference academic book award 1997 source nielsen book data 9780691162553 20160613. 1 the origins of the urban crisis race and inequality in postwar detroit thomas j sugrue princeton uni versity press 2014 p168 2 the origins of the urban crisis race and inequality in postwar detroit thomas j sugrue princeton uni versity press 2014 p18 partecipazione e conflitto 82 2015 609 619 doi 101285 i20356609v8i2p609 612 raw materials non automobile related