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According to Wikipedia, Thomas J. Sugrue is an American historian of the 20th-century United States currently serving as a professor at New York University. From 1991 to 2015, he was the David Boies Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and founding director of the Penn Social Science and Policy Forum. His areas of expertise include American urban history, American political history, housing and the history of race relations. He has published extensively on the history of liberalism and conservatism, on housing and real estate, on poverty and public policy, on civil rights, and on the history of affirmative action.

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Thomas Sugrue's Published Works

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The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (1996) (1711)
Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North (2008) (308)
Crabgrass-Roots Politics: Race, Rights, and the Reaction against Liberalism in the Urban North, 1940–1964 (1995) (127)
The Compelling Need for Diversity in Higher Education. (1999) (126)
The New Suburban History (2006) (116)
The ruins of Detroit (2010) (62)
Affirmative Action from Below: Civil Rights, the Building Trades, and the Politics of Racial Equality in the Urban North, 1945–1969 (2004) (55)
CHAPTER 3: The Structures of Urban Poverty: The Reorganization of Space and Work in Three Periods of American History (1993) (49)
Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race (2010) (29)
The Tangled Roots of Affirmative Action (1998) (21)
Segmented Work, Race-Conscious Workers: Structure, Agency and Division in the CIO Era (1996) (21)
W.E.B. DuBois, race, and the city : the Philadelphia Negro and its legacy (1999) (20)
Hillburn, Hattiesburg, and Hitler (2012) (17)
Chapter 1. Immigration and the New Social Transformation of the American City (2017) (14)
Book Review: History: Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of Liberalism (2000) (14)
Plainfield Burning (2007) (12)
The Power of Place: Race, Political Economy, and Identity in the Postwar Metropolis (2007) (11)
Reassessing the History of Postwar America (1995) (9)
“Forget about Your Inalienable Right to Work”: Deindustrialization and Its Discontents at Ford, 1950–1953 (1995) (8)
We Called It Music: A Generation of Jazz (1970) (8)
Revisiting The Second Ghetto (2003) (6)
The Peopling and Depeopling of Early Pennsylvania: Indians and Colonists, 1680-1720 (1992) (6)
Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization in the United States (2017) (6)
Chapter 4. Revitalizing the Suburbs: Immigrants in Greater Boston Since the 1980s (2017) (6)
3. The Catholic Encounter with the 1960s (2012) (6)
These United States: A Nation in the Making, 1890 to the Present (2015) (5)
The Impoverished Politics of Poverty (1994) (5)
A Case of Unexamined Assumptions: The Use and Misuse of the Statistical Analysis of Castaneda/Hazelwood in Discrimination Litigation (1983) (5)
Spectrum Policy and the Development Of Advanced Wireless Services (2003) (4)
Expert Report of Thomas J. Sugrue (1999) (4)
Northern Lights: The Black Freedom Struggle Outside the South (2012) (2)
Preface to the 2005 Edition (2014) (2)
Preface to the Princeton Classics Edition (2014) (2)
A Conversation with Howard Fast, March 23 1994 (1995) (2)
Detroit 1967: Origins, Impacts, Legacies (2017) (2)
Poverty in the Era of Welfare Reform: The “Underclass” Family in Myth and Reality (2013) (2)
Less Separate, Still Unequal:: Diversity and Equality in “Post–Civil Rights” America (2016) (2)
Chapter 8. Migrantes, Barrios, and Infraestructura: Transnational Processes of Urban Revitalization in Chicago (2017) (1)
Introduction: The Housing Revolution We Need (2018) (1)
From Jim Crow to Fair Housing (2017) (1)
Starling of the White House : the story of the man whose Secret Service detail guarded five presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Franklin D. Roosevelt (1)
Chapter 9. Liberian Reconstruction, Transnational Development, and Pan-African Community Revitalization (2017) (1)
Chapter 2. Estimating the Impact of Immigration on County-Level Economic Indicators (2017) (1)
Concord Park, Open Housing, and the Lost Promise of Civil Rights in the North (2010) (1)
Antidemocracy in America (2019) (1)
Conclusion. Crisis: Detroit and the Fate of Postindustrial America (2014) (1)
Chapter 3. Immigrants, Housing Demand, and the Economic Cycle (2017) (1)
Chapter 1. Less Separate, Still Unequal: Diversity and Equality in “Post– Civil Rights” America (2016) (1)
2. “Detroit’s Time Bomb”: Race and Housing in the 1940s (2014) (1)
7. Class, Status, and Residence: The Changing Geography of Black Detroit (2014) (0)
Predatory Real Estate (2019) (0)
Introduction: Immigration and the New American Metropolis (2017) (0)
4. “The Meanest and Dirtiest Jobs”: The Structures of Employment Discrimination (2014) (0)
6. “Forget about Your Inalienable Right to Work”: Responses to Industrial Decline and Discrimination (2014) (0)
Chapter 7. Transforming Transit-Oriented Development Projects via Immigrant-Led Revitalization: The MacArthur Park Case (2017) (0)
More Than Skin Deep (1996) (0)
Preface: The Reconfiguration Of Political History (2015) (0)
Appendix A. Index of Dissimilarity, Blacks and Whites in Major American Cities, 1940–1990 (2014) (0)
Chapter 5. Immigrant Cities as Reservations for Low- Wage Labor (2017) (0)
BOOKS, 1996–2002 (2005) (0)
Toward a New Civil Rights History (2010) (0)
Joshua Freeman, Working-Class New York: Life and Labor Since World War II. New York: The New Press, 2000. xv + 409 pp. $35.00 cloth. (2002) (0)
8. “Homeowners’ Rights”: White Resistance and the Rise of Antiliberalism (2014) (0)
III. “A More Perfect Union”? The Burden of Race in Obama’s America (2010) (0)
3. “The Coffin of Peace”: The Containment of Public Housing (2014) (0)
Sugrue replies [3] (2007) (0)
9. “United Communities Are Impregnable”: Violence and the Color Line (2014) (0)
The Early Days of Israel (2016) (0)
Republican Elites, Employer Mobilization, and the Politics of State Fair Employment Practices Legislation in the North, 1945-1964 (2004) (0)
Chapter 6. Old Maps and New Neighbors: The Spatial Politics of Immigrant Settlement (2017) (0)
The telecommunications policy debate in the U.S. (1996) (0)
A Decent-Sized Foundation: Obama’s Urban Policy (2018) (0)
Burn, Bébé, Burn (2006) (0)
The Power of Unlikely Coalitions (2000) (0)
CHAPTER TWELVE. All Politics Is Local: The Persistence of Localism in Twentieth-Century America (2009) (0)
Book Review: Historical Studies: “Negro and White, Unite and Fight!” A Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking, 1930–90 (1999) (0)
II. Obama and the Truly Disadvantaged: The Politics of Race and Class (2010) (0)
Not Even Past (2010) (0)
The Right to a Decent Home (2012) (0)
I. “This Is My Story”: Obama, Civil Rights, and Memory (2010) (0)
5. “The Damning Mark of False Prosperities”: The Deindustrialization of Detroit (2014) (0)
Responsibility to the past, engagement with the present (1998) (0)
1995 North American Labor History Conference (1997) (0)
The Politics of Culture in Cold War America (1995) (0)
Pan American Women (2017) (0)
Lincoln, Resurrected (2010) (0)
Abbreviations in the Notes (2014) (0)
The Black Freedom Struggle in the Urban North (2018) (0)
Communicants, Community, and Capital: Parish Boundaries, Race, and Catholicism (2021) (0)
The Calyx, 1930 (yearbook) (0)
1. “Arsenal of Democracy” (2014) (0)
Appendix B. African American Occupational Structure in Detroit, 1940–1970 (2014) (0)
“The Largest Civil Rights Organization Today”: Title VII and the Transformation of the Public Sector (2014) (0)

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