Title Class notes : posing as politics and other thoughts on the American scene / Adolph Reed, Jr

Published New York : New Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 211 pages) Contents Issues in Black Public Life -- Why Is There No Black Political Movement? -- The Curse of "Community" -- Romancing Jim Crow -- Have We Exhaled Yet? -- We Were Framed -- What Color Is Antisemitism? -- The Rise of Louis Farrakhan -- Triumph of the Tuskegee Will -- Martyrs and False Populists -- Tokens of the White Left -- "What Are the Drums Saying, Booker?" The Curious Role of the Black Public Intellectual -- Equality and Ideology in American Politics -- The Underclass Myth -- Pimping Poverty, Then and Now -- Liberals, I Do Despise -- Kiss the Family Good-bye -- A Polluted Debate -- Nasty Habits -- A Livable Wage -- Token Equality -- Skin Deep -- The Content of Our Cardiovascular -- Looking Backward -- The Question of Practice -- Posing As Politics -- Ethnic Studies and Pluralist Politics -- The Battle of Liberty Monument -- Looking Back at Brown -- Sectarians on the Prowl -- "Fayettenam," 1969 Tales from a G.I. Coffeehouse -- The Longer March -- Building Solidarity Summary 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. 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. Class Notes is a classic text that signposts a path for the Left--out of essentialist gridlock and into meaningful, goal-oriented mass politics. -- Provided by publisher Notes Description based upon print version of record "Most of the essays published here appeared originally in...my regular columns in The Progressive and The Village voice, or in similar venues"--Introduction Subject African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century Group identity -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century Political culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century Social classes -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century Liberalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century African Americans -- Race identity. African Americans -- Politics and government Group identity -- Political aspects Liberalism Political culture Politics and government Social classes -- Political aspects Social policy SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- 1993-2001. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92006372 United States -- Social policy -- 1993- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92006374 United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494 Subject United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 1620977176 9781620977170

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