By chance caught what appeared to be the first show of a new Channel 7 series"History of Housing and Race":

http://detroit2020.com/2011/07/12/de...sing-and-race/

Progran included comments by Professor Thomas Sugrue [[ Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Post-War Detroit, 1996) and demographer Kurt Metzger. High quality start. Check it out.