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The South

Jim Crow and Its Afterlives

By: Adolph L. Reed, Jr.

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The South

Jim Crow and Its Afterlives

By: Adolph L. Reed, Jr.

A narrative account of Jim Crow as people experienced it The last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear. They leave behind a collective memory of segregation shaped increasingly by its horrors and heroic defeat but not a nuanced understanding of everyday life in Jim Crow America. In The South, Adolph L. Reed Jr. — New Orleanian, political scientist, and according to Cornel West, “the greatest democratic theorist of his generation” — takes up the urgent task of recounting the granular realities of life in the last decades of the Jim Crow South. Reed illuminates the multifaceted structures of the segregationist order. Through his personal history and political acumen, we see America’s apartheid system from the ground up, not just its legal framework or systems of power, but the way these systems structured the day-to-day interactions, lives, and ambitions of ordinary working people. The South unravels the personal and political dimensions of the Jim Crow order, revealing the sources and objectives of this unstable regime, its contradictions and precarity, and the social order that would replace it. The South is more than a memoir or a history. Filled with analysis and fascinating firsthand accounts of the operation of the system that codified and enshrined racial inequality, this book is required reading for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of America's second peculiar institution the future created in its wake. With a foreword from Barbara Fields, co-author of the acclaimed Racecraft.

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1839766263

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Class Notes

Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene

By: Adolph L. Reed

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Class Notes

Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene

By: Adolph L. Reed

Hailed by "Publishers Weekly" for its "forceful" and "bracing opinions on race and politics," "Class Notes" is critic Adolph Reed Jr.'s latest blast of clear thinking on matters of race, class, and other American dilemmas. The book begins with a consideration of the theoretical and practical strategies of the U.S. left over the last three decades: Reed argues against the solipsistic approaches of cultural or identity politics, and in favor of class-based political interpretation and action. "Class Notes" moves on to tackle race relations, ethnic studies, family values, welfare reform, the so-called underclass, and black public intellectuals in essays called "head-spinning" and "brilliantly executed" by David Levering Lewis. Adolph Reed Jr. has earned a national reputation for his controversial evaluations of American politics. These essays illustrate why people like Katha Pollitt consider Reed "the smartest person of any race, class, or gender writing on race, class, and gender.

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1565846753

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Renewing Black Intellectual History

The Ideological and Material Foundations of African American Thought

By: Adolph Reed,Kenneth W. Warren

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Renewing Black Intellectual History

The Ideological and Material Foundations of African American Thought

By: Adolph Reed,Kenneth W. Warren

Reflecting critically on the discipline of African American studies is a complicated undertaking. Making sense of the black American experience requires situating it within the larger cultural, political-economic, and ideological dynamics that shape American life. This volume moves away from privileging racial commonality as the fulcrum of inquiry and moves toward observing the quality of the accounts scholars have rendered of black American life. This book maps the changing conditions of black political practice and experience from Emancipation to Obama with excursions into the Jim Crow era, Black Power radicalism, and the Reagan revolt. Here are essays, classic and new, that define historically and conceptually discrete problems affecting black Americans as these problems have been shaped by both politics and scholarly fashion. A key goal of the book is to come to terms with the changing terrain of American life in view of major Civil Rights court decisions and legislation.

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Routledge

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1317252950

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9781317252955

The South

Jim Crow and Its Afterlives

By: Adolph L. Reed, Jr.

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Jim Crow and Its Afterlives

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W. E. B. Du Bois and American Political Thought

Fabianism and the Color Line

By: Adolph L. Reed Jr.

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W. E. B. Du Bois and American Political Thought

Fabianism and the Color Line

By: Adolph L. Reed Jr.

In this explosive book, Adolph Reed covers for the first time the full sweep and totality of W. E. B. Du Bois's political thought. Departing from existing scholarship, Reed locates the sources of Du Bois's thought in the cauldron of reform-minded intellectual life at the turn of the century, demonstrating that a commitment to liberal collectivism, an essentially Fabian socialism, remained pivotal in Du Bois's thought even as he embraced a range of political programs over time, including radical Marxism. He remaps the history of twentieth-century progressive thought and sharply criticizing recent trends in Afro-American, literary, and cultural studies.

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Oxford University Press

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0198021917

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The Jesse Jackson Phenomenon

The Crisis of Purpose in Afro-American Politics

By: Adolph L. Reed

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The Jesse Jackson Phenomenon

The Crisis of Purpose in Afro-American Politics

By: Adolph L. Reed

Controversial analysis of the Jackson campaign by a black scholar who argues that his candidacy hurt the development of a viable black political movement.

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Yale University Press

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0300035527

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9780300035520

W.E.B. Du Bois and American Political Thought

Fabianism and the Color Line

By: Adolph L. Reed

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Fabianism and the Color Line

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Reed argues that DuBois is not best seen as the 'premier black intellectual' but rather as a member of a cohort that included other progressive and radical American voices, black and white. Afro-American thought must be placed in context, not isolated.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195051742

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No Politics but Class Politics

By: Walter Benn Michaels,Adolph Reed, Jr.

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No Politics but Class Politics

By: Walter Benn Michaels,Adolph Reed, Jr.

Denouncing racism and celebrating diversity have become central mainstays of progressive politics: for many on the left, social justice consists of equitable distribution of wealth, power, and esteem among racial groups. But as Adolph Reed, Jr. and Walter Benn Michaels argue in this groundbreaking collection of essays, the emphasis seems to be tragically misplaced. Not only does a fixation with racial disparities distract from the pervasive influence of class—it actually legitimises economic inequality. “Adolph Reed, Jr. is the towering radical theorist of American democracy of his generation.” —Cornel West “Walter Benn Michaels is cunning, brilliant, acutely suggestive, exhilarating to read.” —Eric Lott “Wokelords and anti-racist liberals will be frustrated, enraged, and defeated. This book pushes us closer towards the uncompromising, bare-knuckled anti-capitalist movement we so desperately need.” —Cedric Johnson “An exhilarating journey that swaps the orthodoxies of contemporary progressive culture for a class politics rooted in universalism.” —James Bloodworth “Adolph Reed, Jr. and Walter Benn Michaels have been among the clearest voices critiquing the dominant race reductionism in American intellectual life and proposing a real egalitarian alternative.” —Bhaskar Sunkara “Anyone interested in the politics of race and class must push aside the dogma of identity and grapple with what Reed, Jr. and Michaels have been arguing for decades.–Jodi Dean “These essays tell the story of the last seven decades, charting the decline of the left and American politics. The result is as rich as it is rare: a long view that is pressing and immediate.” —Corey Robin “Reed, Jr. and Michaels take a hammer to common ways of thinking about race, class, inequality and identity, revealing ugly truths, and challenging us out of our comfort zones.” —Kenan Malik

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W.E.B. Du Bois and American Political Thought

Fabianism and the Color Line

By: Adolph L. Reed

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Stirrings in the Jug

Black Politics in the Post-segregation Era

By: Adolph L. Reed

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Stirrings in the Jug

Black Politics in the Post-segregation Era

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In Stirrings in the Jug, Reed offers a sweeping and incisive analysis of racial politics during the post-civil rights era.

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0816626812

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Reparations?

Yes/No

By: Bill Fletcher (Jr.),Adolph L. Reed

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Reparations?

Yes/No

By: Bill Fletcher (Jr.),Adolph L. Reed

Reparations? Yes/No" encapsulates the vibrancy of a rapid-fire exchange as Fletcher, Jr. and Reed, Jr., two preeminent and eloquent thinkers, engage back and forth on the issue, anchored by their deep grounding in American racial politics.

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1565848101

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No Politics but Class Politics

By: Walter Benn Michaels,Adolph Reed, Jr.

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No Politics but Class Politics

By: Walter Benn Michaels,Adolph Reed, Jr.

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W. E. B. Du Bois and American Political Thought

Fabianism and the Color Line

By: Adolph L. Reed Jr.

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The South

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The South

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The Jesse Jackson Phenomenon

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No Politics but Class Politics

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Stirrings in the Jug

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Reparations?

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No Politics but Class Politics

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