Opportunities Lost
28 September 2011 | Hidden City Daily
We’ve given away our power to wow, delight, and inform
Posts tagged with “Tom Sugrue”
Gray Area project aims to bring Philadelphia designers and preservationists together
23 September 2011 | Philadelphia Inquirer
While we are still devoting too few resources to preserving our inherited fabric, we’re also not reliably producing strong contemporary architecture.
The Vital Thread of Tom Sugrue
1 May 2009 | The Pennsylvania Gazette
In The Origins of the Urban Crisis and now Sweet Land of Liberty, Penn historian Thomas Sugrue has shattered the conventional narrative about the struggle for Civil Rights in this country. The new book was published on the same day a black man was elected president; still, says Sugrue, “We’ve got a lot of overcoming to do.”
Fables of the Reconstruction
5 November 2008 | Philadelphia City Paper
One doesn’t need a book like this to understand the amalgam of failure, disappointment and resilience that the civil rights struggle produced. It’s plainly here, in the sometimes disheartening, sometimes exhilarating fact of this great black city.
Saving Race
27 March 2008 | Philadelphia City Paper
The original hope of economic justice got pushed aside in favor of campaigns for integration, education and self-esteem. “This new civil rights would prove fundamentally unable to redress the economic hierarchies of Jim Crow America,” says Goluboff of the movement’s ultimate focus on these softer targets.