The origins of the urban crisis: race and inequality in postwar Detroit

Introduction

"Arsenal of democracy"

"Detroit's time bomb" : race and housing in the 1940s

"The coffin of peace" : the containment of public housing

"The meanest and the dirtiest jobs" : the structures of employment discrimination

"The damning mark of false prosperities" : the deindustrialization of Detroit

"Forget about your unalienable right to work" : responses to industrial decline and discrimination

Class, status, and residence : the changing geography of black Detroit

"Homeowners' rights" : white resistance and the rise of antiliberalism

"United communities are impregnable" : violence and the color line

Conclusion: Crisis : Detroit and the fate of postindustrial America.

"Arsenal of democracy"

"Detroit's time bomb": race and housing in the 1940s

"The coffin of peace": the containment of public housing

"The meanest and the dirtiest jobs": the structures of employment discrimination

"The damning mark of false prosperities": the deindustrialization of Detroit

"Forget about your inalienable right to work": responses to industrial decline and discrimination

Class, status, and residence: the changing geography of black Detroit

"Homeowners' rights": white resistance and the rise of antiliberalism

"United communities are impregnable": violence and the color line

Crisis: Detroit and the fate of postindustrial America.