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Available: May 2001
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5 1/2 x 8 1/4 , 240 pages
ISBN: 978-1-56584-675-3
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g as Politics and Other Thoughts
e American Scene
eed Jr.
sic and deeply prescient collection that explores the
ted nature of race, class, and identity in America, from one
ost insightful and iconoclastic intellectuals
for thinking leftists.” —Katha Pollitt, The Nation
lishers Weekly for its “forceful” and “bracing opinions on race and politics,” Class Notes
n of critic Adolph Reed Jr.’s clearest thinking on matters of race, class, and other
emmas. With barbed wit, Reed takes aim against the solipsistic, individualistic
of identity politics, and in favor of class-based political interpretation and action. Reed
ic untouched, from the myth that there exists a particular kind of “Black Anti-Semitism,”
rpetuated by commentators who claim to speak for groups solely based on their identity
Jr. remains one of our most controversial and necessary interpreters of American
e essays illustrate why Reed is “the smartest person of any race, class, or gender writing
s, and gender” (Katha Pollitt). Class Notes is a classic text that signposts a path for the
ssentialist gridlock and into meaningful, goal-oriented mass politics.
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nk. . . . This book is definitely not “Everything [Reed] writes is informed by a
old mobilization rhetoric.” strong historical memory of a time when
professor of law, Loyola University there was a ‘Movement’ and when the
.” distance between rhetoric and conviction was
much less than it is now.”
—Christopher Hitchens, The New York Times
s sparkles with wit and wisdom. Book Review
y on the political and intellectual left
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60s is the best analysis of American “Opening Adolph Reed’s Class Notes is like
n print.” boarding a roller coaster. What follows is an
n, professor of history, The City
opinionated, headspinning loop, brilliantly
New York
executed, through the controversies of the
recent past and immediate future. I strongly
recommend taking the ride.”
—David Levering Lewis, author of W. E. B.
DuBois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919, winner
of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize in Biography
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★★ · January 27, 2021
finishing this book on a particularly sunny day, but this book instilled a bright enthusiasm in me. I reckon it's frequently
battering ram against 'identity politics', which it undeniably is, but it's also a positive testimony to what "an organizing
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★★ · August 15, 2008
re have you been all my life? Class Notes is a collection of essays on black politics, the labor movement, left strategy, the
e, the suckiness of liberals, and a range of other issues, all addressed with Reed's ascerbic wit and razor sharp political
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☆☆ · October 04, 2020
8, thought it was breezy/interesting, thought his attacks on rivals like ME Dyson ("Pigmeat Markham meets Baudrillard")
amusing.
20, after he ripped into writer Angela Nagle on a podcast. The signs of A Reed's real positions are evident throughou
★★ · October 09, 2019
one of my favorite left-wing intellectuals. This collection of essays primarily focuses on political strategy, racism, and
ovides a valuable materialist insight into the unique features of black communities and politics as well. He is very critical
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Adolph Reed Jr.
Adolph Reed Jr. is a professor of
political science at the University of
Pennsylvania. He is the editor of Race,
Politics, and Culture and Without Justice
for All and the author of The Jesse
Jackson Phenomenon...
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