title: The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton Studies in American Politics)
author:  Thomas J. Sugrue 
description: <b>"Winner of the 1998 Bancroft Prize in American History"</b><br /><br /><b>"Winner of the 1997 Philip Taft Prize in Labor History"</b><br /><br /><b>"Winner of the 1996 President's Book Award, Social Science History Association"</b><br /><br /><b>"Winner of the 1997 Best Book in North American Urban History Award, Urban History Association"</b><br /><br /><b>"One of Choice's Outstanding AcademicTitles for 1997"</b><br /><br />"In this important new history of post-World War II Detroit, Sugrue solidly refutes conservative theories about welfare dependency and deepens liberal thinking about the underlying causes of urban poverty."<b>---Jim McNeil, <i>In These Times</i></b><br /><br />"[A] first-rate account. . . . With insight and elegance, Sugrue describes the street-by-street warfare to maintain housing values against the perceived encroachment of blacks trying desperately to escape the underbuilt and overcrowded slums." (<i>Choice</i>)<br /><br />"Perhaps by offering a clearer picture of how the urban crisis began, Sugrue brings us a little closer to finding a way to end it."<b>---Jim McNeill, <i>In These Times</i></b><br /><br />"This superb study offers a richly detailed account of the rise and fall of twentieth-century Detroit.... Must reading for ... everyone concerned about the current urban crisis."<b>Jacqueline Jones, author of <i>The Dispossessed: America's Underclass from the Civil War to the Present</i></b><br /><br />"Sugrue's incredibly rich, nuanced, multilayered account of the transformation of Detroit provides the historical perspective missing in virtually all accounts of the crisis ravaging today's inner cities."<b>Robin D. G. Kelley, author of <i>Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class</i></b>
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