| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Historical Roots of the Urban Crisis: African Americans in the Industrial City, 1900–1950. Ed. by Henry Louis Taylor Jr. and Walter Hill. (New York: Garland, 2000. xxiv, 297 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8153-2749-8.)

In 1996, Thomas Sugrue's pathbreaking The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit wrested the story of inner-city devastation from present-minded social scientists and journalists to reveal the complex historical roots of the crisis. Now Henry Louis Taylor Jr. and Walter Hill's edited collection, Historical Roots of the Urban Crisis, has pushed the story back even further, to the origins of African American communities in America's industrializing cities. 1

While the editors do not explicitly acknowledge Sugrue's approach, their volume is clearly inspired by his. Bringing together essays by junior and senior scholars that address the political, economic, and social roots of the urban crisis—from the broad reach of dominant national ideologies, economic structures, and federal labor policy to the impact of community formation and the internal politics of individual black communities on the shape of black activism, work, and residential patterns—it seeks the same depth and breadth as Sugrue's work. . . .

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