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Class Notes

Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene

By: Adolph Reed Jr.

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Class Notes

Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene

By: Adolph Reed Jr.

The classic and deeply prescient collection that explores the multifaceted nature of race, class, and identity in America, from one of our most insightful and iconoclastic intellectuals Hailed by Publishers Weekly for its “forceful” and “bracing opinions on race and politics,” Class Notes is a collection of critic Adolph Reed Jr.’s clearest thinking on matters of race, class, and other American dilemmas. With barbed wit, Reed takes aim against the solipsistic, individualistic approaches of identity politics, and in favor of class-based political interpretation and action. Reed leaves no topic untouched, from the myth that there exists a particular kind of “Black Anti-Semitism,” to the grift perpetuated by commentators who claim to speak for groups solely based on their identity categories. Adolph Reed Jr. remains one of our most controversial and necessary interpreters of American politics. These essays illustrate why Reed is “the smartest person of any race, class, or gender writing on race, class, and gender” (Katha Pollitt). Class Notes is a classic text that signposts a path for the Left—out of essentialist gridlock and into meaningful, goal-oriented mass politics.

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The New Press

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1620977176

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9781620977170

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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Verso Books

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1839766263

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9781839766268

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

By: Adolph L. Reed

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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Choice Publishing Co., Ltd.

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0816626812

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9780816626816

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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433

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Routledge

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1317252950

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9781317252955

In Search of Our Ancient Ancestors

From the Big Bang to Modern Britain, In Science and Myth

By: Anthony Adolph

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In Search of Our Ancient Ancestors

From the Big Bang to Modern Britain, In Science and Myth

By: Anthony Adolph

A top genealogist “shows how genetics helps and how it roots each of us in this magnificent story of Life on Earth in the most meaningful way imaginable.”—Reunite Magazine “What a fine long pedigree you have given the human race.”—Charles Darwin to Charles Lyell, 1863 How distantly are we related to dinosaurs? How much of your DNA came from Neanderthals? How are the builders of Stonehenge connected to great-grandpa? According to science, life first appeared on Earth about 3,500 million years ago. Every living thing is descended from that first spark, including all of us. But if we trace a direct line down from those original life forms to ourselves, what do we find? What is the full story of our family tree over the past 3,500 million years, and how are we able to trace ourselves so far back? From single-celled organisms to sea-dwelling vertebrates; amphibians to reptiles; tiny mammals to primitive man; the first Homo sapiens to the cave painters of Ice Age Europe and the first farmers down to the Norman Conquest, this book charts not only the extraordinary story of our ancient ancestors but also our 40,000-year-long quest to discover our roots, from ancient origin myths of world-shaping mammoths and great floods down to the scientific discovery of our descent from the Genetic Adam and the Mitochondrial Eve. “Having read it I’m still slightly shell-shocked by the range of topics that he covers, from the origins of the universe and life on Earth to the present-day DNA analysis that aims to answer some of our questions about our past. And everything in between!”—LostCousins

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Casemate Publishers

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1473849225

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9781473849228

Renewing Black Intellectual History

The Ideological and Material Foundations of African American Thought

By: Adolph Reed,Kenneth W. Warren

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The Ideological and Material Foundations of African American Thought

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Routledge

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1317252969

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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.

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1839766298

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

Fabianism and the Color Line

By: Adolph L. Reed

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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9780195051742

A Doll's Life

By: Larry Grossman,Betty Comden,Adolph Green

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A Doll's Life

By: Larry Grossman,Betty Comden,Adolph Green

Set within the framing of a contemporary rehearsal of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, A Dol's Life imagines what happened after Nora slammed the door , leaving her husband Torvald. Borrowing train fare from a young violinist, Otto, she travels to Christiania, where she begins to work in a cafe. Soon she becomes involved not only with Otto, but Eric Didrickson, the wealthy owner of shipping lines and fish canneries, and Johan Blecker, a lawyer. Scenes of her new life mingle with flashbacks to her old.

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Baker's Plays

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0573681910

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9780573681912

The Discovery of New Mexico by the Franciscan Monk Friar Marcos de Niza in 1539

By: Adolph F. Bandelier

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The Discovery of New Mexico by the Franciscan Monk Friar Marcos de Niza in 1539

By: Adolph F. Bandelier

The story of Fray Marcos and the Seven Cities of Cíbola was a favorite of Adolph Bandelier (1840–1914). Bandelier’s combination of methodological sophistication and control of the archival data makes the Marcos de Niza paper important, not only as a landmark in Southwestern ethnohistory, but as a work of scholarship in its own rights, with insights on Cabeza de Vaca, Marcos, and early Southwestern exploration that are still valid today.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816545936

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9780816545933

American Art Deco

An Illustrated Survey

By: R. L. Leonard,C. Adolph Glassgold

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American Art Deco

An Illustrated Survey

By: R. L. Leonard,C. Adolph Glassgold

Inspired, in part, by the industrial age and Native American art, and championed by progressive architects, American Art Deco was one of the most popular decorative styles of the 20th century. This volume includes scores of photographs and important articles that describe the aesthetics of this great mode of artistic expression.An introduction by architectural critic Lewis Mumford is followed by comments from such notables as Frank Lloyd Wright on design principles; theatrical and industrial designer Norman Bel Geddes on outfitting business interiors; and Edward Steichen on commercial photography. A fascinating glimpse of an exciting and innovative era in the history of American design, this book will appeal to architects, graphic artists, photographers, and lovers of the Art Deco style. Over 200 black-and-white illustrations.

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180

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Courier Corporation

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0486433749

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9780486433745

Human Genome Methods

By: Kenneth W. Adolph

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Human Genome Methods

By: Kenneth W. Adolph

Human Genome Methods is a practical guide to the application of molecular biology and genetics techniques to research on human cells. Written by recognized authorities who often originated the techniques described, chapters present experimental protocols that are readily used at the laboratory bench. The step-by-step protocols are concise and easy to follow to be reproducible by researchers of various levels of expertise. Suggestions for successful application of procedures are included, along with recommended materials and suppliers. Helpful background information and results of applying the methods described are also given. Section I covers topics such as microsatellite DNA, dynamic mutations, gene targeting using the DNA triple helix, and protease footprinting of DNA-protein interactions. This is followed in Section II by discussions of in situ hybridization, cell synchronization, and cell cycle specific gene expression. Methods concerned with programmed cell death are explored in Section III, which covers this emerging research area and the culture and analysis of cancer cells. Section IV presents methods related to transgene analysis of mouse embryonic stem cells, generation and knockout studies with null mutant mice, and mouse models for human disease. The final section reviews genome mapping, with an emphasis on the construction of linkage maps and on somatic cell hybrids for mapping disease genes.

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CRC Press

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0849344115

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9780849344114

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Class Notes

Class Notes

The South

The South

Stirrings in the Jug

Stirrings in the Jug

Renewing Black Intellectual History

Renewing Black Intellectual History

In Search of Our Ancient Ancestors

In Search of Our Ancient Ancestors

Renewing Black Intellectual History

Renewing Black Intellectual History

The South

The South

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

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

A Doll's Life

A Doll's Life

The Discovery of New Mexico by the Franciscan Monk Friar Marcos de Niza in 1539

The Discovery of New Mexico by the Franciscan Monk Friar Marcos de Niza in 1539

American Art Deco

American Art Deco

Human Genome Methods

Human Genome Methods

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