It takes the average reader 7 hours and 5 minutes to read The Origins of the Urban Crisis by Thomas J. Sugrue
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Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit over the last fifty years has become the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of racial and economic inequality in modern America, Thomas Sugrue explains how Detroit and many other once prosperous industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. He challenges the conventional wisdom that urban decline is the product of the social programs and racial fissures of the 1960s. Probing beneath the veneer of 1950s prosperity and social consensus, Sugrue traces the rise of a new ghetto, solidified by changes...
The Origins of the Urban Crisis by Thomas J. Sugrue is 416 pages long, and a total of 106,496 words.
This makes it 140% the length of the average book. It also has 130% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 41 minutes to read The Origins of the Urban Crisis aloud.
The Origins of the Urban Crisis is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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