-
Criminals and Culture Makers
- Dissent
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 61, Number 3, Summer 2014
- pp. 15-19
- 10.1353/dss.2014.0048
- Article
- Additional Information
- Purchase/rental options available:
Detroit’s story of bankruptcy and rust is a quintessential Great Recession tragedy, but it is not the first major American city to grapple with bankruptcy amid structural economic change, class tensions, and pervasive urban desolation. At the dawn of the Reagan Revolution, the country’s biggest city was also instructed by the federal government to fix its own financial problems.