Project Summary: Discuss the role that racism played in public policies related to urban housing throughout the twentieth century. Did this racism manifest itself solely on an individual level (i.e. the white homeowner who did not want to live next to an African American), or was there an institutional side to such racism as well (i.e. within various levels of government)? Please draw from the 3 books as you attempt to answer such questions. Thomas J. Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005 edition). (attached) Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002). (attached) Jeff Chang, Cant Stop Wont Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation (New York: St. Martins Press, 2005).