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He has taught at Yale, Northwestern, and the New School for Social Research and he has written on racial and economic inequality.
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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 cul...
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Skeptical of received wisdom, Reed casts a critical eye on political trends in the black community over the past thirty years. He examines the rise of a new black political class in the aftermath of the civil rights era, and bluntly denounces black leadership that is not accountable to a black constituency; such leadership, he says, functions as a proxy for white elites. Reed debunks as myths the 'endangered black male" and the "black underclass, " and punctures what he views as the exaggeration and self-deception surrounding the black power movement and the Malcolm X revival. He chastises the Left, too, for its failure to develop an alternative politics, then lays out a practical leftist agenda and reasserts the centrality of political action.
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He has taught at Yale, Northwestern, and the New School for Social Research and he has written on racial and economic inequality.
In Chicago, for instance, we’ve gotten a foretaste of the new breed of foundation-hatched black communitarian voices. One of them, a smooth Harvard lawyer with impeccable do-good credentials and vacuous-to-repressive neoliberal politics, has won a state senate seat on a base mainly in the liberal foundation and development worlds.
(Hailed by Publishers Weekly for its "forceful" and "braci...)
(Skeptical of received wisdom, Reed casts a critical eye o...)
After South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley announced that African American Republican Tim Scott would be named to the soon-to-be-open United States. Senate seat in South Carolina, held by Jim DeMint on December 17, 2012, Reed, in an op-ed published in the December 18, 2012 edition of The New York Times, stated, "lieutenant obscures the fact that modern black Republicans have been more tokens than signs of progress." Reed"s editorial has been criticized by conservatives who argue that Reed applies the term "token" to any African American who holds conservative views and posited a correlation between Reed"s conviction that Grand Old Party policies don’t reflect mainstream black politics to a belief that the tokenism charge does not apply when the African American politician is a member of the Democratic Party.
His political criticism, however, includes that of Democratic politicians of African American heritage, as well as specific criticism of Democratic president Barack Obama, both during his presidency, and as early as when he was still a state senator in Illinois.
In an article in the The Village Voice dated January 16, 1996, he said of Obama:
In Chicago, for instance, we’ve gotten a foretaste of the new breed of foundation-hatched black communitarian voices. One of them, a smooth Harvard lawyer with impeccable do-good credentials and vacuous-to-repressive neoliberal politics, has won a state senate seat on a base mainly in the liberal foundation and development worlds. His fundamentally bootstrap line was softened by a patina of the rhetoric of authentic community, talk about meeting in kitchens, small-scale solutions to social problems, and the predictable elevation of process over program — the point where identity politics converges with old-fashioned middle-class reform in favoring form over substance.
I suspect that his ilk is the wave of the future in United States. black politics, as in Haiti and wherever else the International Monetary Fund has sway. So far the black activist response hasn’t been up to the challenge. We have to do better.
This was reprinted in Class Notes: Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene (New Press, 2000).
He is a founding member of the United States. Labor Party and a frequent contributor to The Progressive and The Nation. After South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley announced that African American Republican Tim Scott would be named to the soon-to-be-open United States. Senate seat in South Carolina, held by Jim DeMint on December 17, 2012, Reed, in an op-ed published in the December 18, 2012 edition of The New York Times, stated, "lieutenant obscures the fact that modern black Republicans have been more tokens than signs of progress." Reed"s editorial has been criticized by conservatives who argue that Reed applies the term "token" to any African American who holds conservative views and posited a correlation between Reed"s conviction that Grand Old Party policies don’t reflect mainstream black politics to a belief that the tokenism charge does not apply when the African American politician is a member of the Democratic Party.
