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Thomas J. Sugrue

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

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Essay Topics

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How did patterns and practices in Detroit’s housing market reinforce racial and class inequities? Cite both explicit, now-outlawed forms of racial discrimination and implicit, facially race-neutral forms.

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Discuss Detroit’s housing crisis alongside public-housing policies and debates. How did politicians and industry leaders shape these debates to the detriment of Black residents?

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What interrelated factors spurred Detroit’s decline in the postwar years? Point to racial, social, and economic dynamics from the 1940s to the 1960s.

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