Essay - Sociology-race Sugrue and Solnit Introduction as the Industrial Powerhouse that...

Sociology-Race

***** and Solnit

Introduction

***** the industrial powerhouse that the United States was in the years of and immediately following World War II began to slow down in ***** 1960s, many ***** America's urban areas saw the economic base eroding with ***** disappearance of industry as well as what one would call "white flight"- the huge migration of Caucasians from the cities when the economies of the cities fell into decline. The by-product of all of *****se occurrences ***** the fight to prevent racial integration of the suburban ***** into which ***** ***** "fled," and a swift decline of American cities. An example of this is Detroit; once known as the automotive capital of ***** world, the city has been devastated over ***** years because of economic ***** racial issues. Such urban crises are the focus of this research, during ***** the works ***** two pivotal writers on the topic will be studied and cited in an effort to better understand the ********** itself.

***** Consequences of the Urban Crisis brief history lesson ***** the socio***** history of Detroit is ***** best way to begin to ***** the historical consequences of the urban crisis as well ***** what the crisis is in and of itself. During ***** ***** after ***** War II, ***** machine shops and automobile plants of *****, and as a result the other supporting businesses, were flush with cash because ***** the need for implements of war, during ***** war years of course, ***** the need ***** consumer vehicles ***** the *****, as men and wo***** returning from battle settled back into a state of normalcy and went on a buying spree in unprecedented qu*****ntities. Because of the proliferation of available jobs, Caucasians and African-Americans alike were able to gain employment; true, ***** ***** inequality was ex*****tent, but it was not as acute or damaging at this point as it ***** eventually become (Sugrue, 1996). W*****h the passage ***** time, however, the gap between the races was intensified by the power of capitalism, ***** ***** African-Americans ***** Detroit, as well as elsewhere, soon saw the economic and social gap ***** them and their racial opposites increasing to their disadvantage. At the same time, northern cities saw huge numbers of African-Americans migrating to them ***** the agricultural south, as jobs in ***** industry began to dwindle with the introduction of more au*****mated farming methods, reducing the need for farm *****rkers. Therefore, large ***** of people were coming to the cities, seeking jobs that did not exist. Once ***** manufacturing jobs began to slip a***** from cities in the north, such as Detroit, the disenfranchised ***** were left behind in the cities by huge numbers of fleeing Cauc*****ians, and the decay of ***** cities ***** (*****, 1996).

*****, in Detroit and beyond, made efforts to revitalize their slumping communities, ***** the ***** inequality they faced made the effort all the ***** challenging. For example, there is evidence to suggest that federal housing funds, such as FHA and others,