Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-364) and index.
Contents
"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.
