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Northern Civil Rights and Republican Affirmative Action
One focus of the 1960s struggle for civil rights in the North were the construction industries of Philadelphia, New York and Cleveland.
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Thomas J. Sugrue
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Matthew Wills
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JSTOR Daily
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March 28, 2022
Stop Comparing Today’s Protests to 1968
There are superficial similarities, but what we’re seeing now is something completely new.
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Thomas J. Sugrue
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Washington Post
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June 11, 2020
Trump Doesn’t Understand Today’s Suburbs—And Neither Do You
Suburbs are getting more diverse, but that doesn't mean they’re woke.
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Thomas J. Sugrue
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Zack Stanton
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Politico Magazine
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June 8, 2020
Thomas J. Sugrue on History’s Hard Lessons
On why he became a public thinker, the relationship between race and class, and his work in light of new histories of capitalism.
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Destin Jenkins
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Thomas J. Sugrue
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Public Books
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April 2, 2019
The Housing Revolution We Need
A decade after the crash of 2008, a growing movement has thrust our prolonged housing crisis to the center of the national agenda.
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Thomas J. Sugrue
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Dissent
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October 1, 2018
Restoring King
There is no figure in recent American history whose memory is more distorted than Martin Luther King Jr.
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Thomas J. Sugrue
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Jacobin
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January 16, 2018
America’s Real Estate Developer in Chief
Donald Trump's rise to power was fueled by the profits of predatory real estate ventures.
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Thomas J. Sugrue
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Public Books
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November 27, 2017
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It's time to shift the social contract of education away from short-term job training toward long-term development.
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'Housing Is Everybody’s Problem'
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What We Still Get Wrong About What Happened in Detroit in 1967
One of the key factors in what happened in 1967 in Detroit has long gone overlooked
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Home Sweet Home
On the early years of the real estate industry, and the racist effort to convince white Americans to buy single-family homes.
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The Illiberalism at America’s Core
A new history argues that illiberalism is not a backlash but a central feature from the founding to today.
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Abolishing the Suburbs
On Kyle Riismandel’s “Neighborhood of Fear: The Suburban Crisis in American Culture, 1975–2001.”
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How Fear Took Over the American Suburbs
On the rise of suburban vigilantes and NIMBYs in the late 20th century and their enduring power today.
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Debt and the Underdevelopment of Black America
How municipal debt contributed to the development of white America and underdevelopment of Black America.
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The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Politicians are suddenly eager to disown failed policies on American prisons, but they have failed to reckon with the history.
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Keep on Truckin’
The road to right-wing deregulation began on our nation's highways.
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