Racism and citizenship

Housing and industry disputes in an American city

Abstract

In this book, Thomas I. Sugrue explores the causes of the economic crisis and the racial divide in the city of Detroit, defining it as an entity in decline. Since World War II until today, this metropolis located in the American Midwest has undergone a process of transformation, from being a symbol of the country's industrial boom to being the representation of the pathology of the North American city. There is no other city in this country where the effects of the so-called deindustrialization are so drastically observed; the permanent closure of factories leaves workers jobless and without future prospects. The foregoing is verified in the face of the evident racial division that is perceived in the geosocial passage of the city, urban areas are the most affected by unemployment, the lack of services and the lack of adequate housing; In addition, these areas are exclusively inhabited by blacks, while the peripheral areas with more urban development are inhabited by whites and there are only a few enclaves of middle-class blacks...