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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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Unfinished Revolution

Dr. King’s goal was full employment and universal health care.

J. Phillip Thompson

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Response: Response to Finance and Manufacturing

Suzanne Berger’s analysis of the ill effects of finance on manufacturing is illuminating but not surprising. The effects are equally dire in health care, infrastructure, and housing. The question is how can...
J. Phillip Thompson

Response: Whose Betrayal?

There is much in “Beyond the Civil Rights Industry” that I agree with. The persistence of poverty, ill-health, AIDS diffusion, and despair in poor black communities is evident. The ineffectiveness of black...
J. Phillip Thompson

Response: Beyond Moralizing

Owen Fiss argues that the contemporary black ghetto is a product of jobs “leaving just as the most successful in the neighborhood were also leaving.” With a high concentration of jobless individuals...
J. Phillip Thompson

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