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J. Phillip Thompson

J. Phillip Thompson is Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. His most recent book is Double Trouble: Black Mayors, Black Communities, and the Call for a Deep Democracy.

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Response to Finance and Manufacturing

We need to take shareholder organizing to a new level.

J. Phillip Thompson

Class & Inequality, Global Justice

Unfinished Revolution

Dr. King’s Goal Was Full Employment and Universal Health Care

J. Phillip Thompson

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Whose Betrayal?

There is much in "Beyond the Civil Rights Industry" that I agree with. The persistence of poverty

J. Phillip Thompson

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Beyond Moralizing

Owen Fiss argues that the contemporary black ghetto is a product of jobs "leaving just as the most

J. Phillip Thompson

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