The Origins of the Urban Crisis

2014-04-27 History

Author : Thomas J. Sugrue
Release : 2014-04-27
Genre : History
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Download or read book The Origins of the Urban Crisis written by Thomas J. Sugrue. This book was released on 2014-04-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reasons behind Detroit’s persistent racialized poverty after World War II Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America’s 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 1960s. 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. This Princeton Classics edition includes a new preface by Sugrue, discussing the lasting impact of the postwar transformation on urban America and the chronic issues leading to Detroit’s bankruptcy.

Historical Roots of the Urban Crisis

2000 Business & Economics

Author : Walter Hill
Release : 2000
Genre : Business & Economics
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Download or read book Historical Roots of the Urban Crisis written by Walter Hill. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Historical Roots of the Urban Crisis: African Americans in the Industrial City, 1900-1950" presents a collection of original essays on the crucial topic of the modern black experience by established and rising scholars. It depicts the struggle of Black Americans against racism and segregation in employment and housing, a struggle from which black workers built a potent community and reached across the class barrier to identify with middle-class, educated African Americans. These essays offer an array of insights and thoughtful meditations on key questions of the modern urban black experience, broad in scope yet coherent in focus. This book will be of interest to anyone concerned about race, the city, and America's significant social experiences.

The Roots of Urban Renaissance

2023-03-14 Architecture

Author : Brian D. Goldstein
Release : 2023-03-14
Genre : Architecture
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Download or read book The Roots of Urban Renaissance written by Brian D. Goldstein. This book was released on 2023-03-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An acclaimed history of Harlem’s journey from urban crisis to urban renaissance With its gleaming shopping centers and refurbished row houses, today’s Harlem bears little resemblance to the neighborhood of the midcentury urban crisis. Brian Goldstein traces Harlem’s Second Renaissance to a surprising source: the radical social movements of the 1960s that resisted city officials and fought to give Harlemites control of their own destiny. Young Harlem activists, inspired by the civil rights movement, envisioned a Harlem built by and for its low-income, predominantly African American population. In the succeeding decades, however, the community-based organizations they founded came to pursue a very different goal: a neighborhood with national retailers and increasingly affluent residents. The Roots of Urban Renaissance demonstrates that gentrification was not imposed on an unwitting community by unscrupulous developers or opportunistic outsiders. Rather, it grew from the neighborhood’s grassroots, producing a legacy that benefited some longtime residents and threatened others.

Sweet Land of Liberty

2009-10-13 History

Author : Thomas J. Sugrue
Release : 2009-10-13
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 381/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Sweet Land of Liberty written by Thomas J. Sugrue. This book was released on 2009-10-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweet Land of Liberty is Thomas J. Sugrue’s epic account of the abiding quest for racial equality in states from Illinois to New York, and of how the intense northern struggle differed from and was inspired by the fight down South. Sugrue’s panoramic view sweeps from the 1920s to the present–more than eighty of the most decisive years in American history. He uncovers the forgotten stories of battles to open up lunch counters, beaches, and movie theaters in the North; the untold history of struggles against Jim Crow schools in northern towns; the dramatic story of racial conflict in northern cities and suburbs; and the long and tangled histories of integration and black power. Filled with unforgettable characters and riveting incidents, and making use of information and accounts both public and private, such as the writings of obscure African American journalists and the records of civil rights and black power groups, Sweet Land of Liberty creates an indelible history.

The Origins of the Urban Crisis

2005 African Americans

Author : Thomas J. Sugrue
Release : 2005
Genre : African Americans
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