Adolph Reed
Biographic Data
| ID | 3697980 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adolph Reed |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adolph |
| FAMILY NAME | Reed |
| SIGNATURE | REED A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3319-5524 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Socialism and the Argument against Race Reductionism
Without Justice for All
Introduction: The New Liberal Orthodoxy on Race and Inequality Adolph Reed Jr. The New Orthodoxy On Race And Inequality * Bill Clinton and the Politics of the New Liberalism Philip A. Klinker * Why Cant They Be Like Our Grandparents and Other Racial Fairy Tales Micaela Di Leonardo * The Great Family Fraud of Postwar America Brett Williams Race, Ideology And Social Policy: Beneath A Mystified Rhetoric * Race in the American Welfare State: The Ambi…
Antiracism
The Kerner Commission and the Irony of Antiracist Politics
The explosions of “urban unrest” in the 1960s became almost immediately, and have remained, something like Rorschach tests or ventriloquist dummies for scholars, journalists, and advocates of political programs across the ideological spectrum. Our prompt notes that taxonomizing those events was and is a theater of ideological contestation. It could hardly have been otherwise. Especially the major riots—Harlem, Watts, Cleveland, Detroit, Newark, e…
Renewing Black intellectual history
The Black-Labor-Left Alliance in the Neoliberal Age
The Post-1965 Trajectory of Race, Class, and Urban Politics in the United States Reconsidered
Comments by Larry Bennett, Cynthia Horan, Cedric Johnson, and Timothy Weaver prompted me to reflect on and connect my work on race ideology, the underclass idea, class dynamics in American politics, and the evolution of urban governance and the terms of black political incorporation since the 1990s. Race is best understood as a particular instance of a class of ideologies that work to justify existing hierarchies by reading them into nature. Unde…
The “Color Line” Then and Now
The Souls of Black Folk is by far the most widely known of W. E. B. Du Bois’s books. It probably ranks among a handful of the most broadly recognized titles in black American literature. From the standpoint of the historian of political thought, the very fact that the book has come to occupy such an iconic space is worthy of note and examination in its own right. After all, Du Bois published two books of non-fiction before and at least nine after…
The Strange Career of the Voting Rights Act
Adolph Reed, Jr. Responds
Marx, Race, and Neoliberalism
Why Labor's Soldiering for the Democrats is a Losing Battle
A Response to “Immigration, African Americans, and Race Discourse”
The Logic of Democratic Exclusion
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAdolph ReedAdolph Reed, Jr., a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, is the author most recently of Class Notes: Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene (New Press, 2000) and Stirrings in the Jug: Black Politics in the Post-Segregation Era (University of Minnesota Press, 1999)
The 2004 Election in Perspective
Why did George W. Bush win the 2004 presidential election? Why did John Kerry lose it? Where to look for answers to those questions and how to interpret them are nearly as much part of the positional warfare of politics as was the election itself. In fact, postelection commentary often seems like a Rorschach test. Analysts typically find what they had predicted. And there can be more than a grain of truth to many, if not all, of their explanation…
Reinventing the Working Class
Reinventing the Working Class
Response to Eric Arnesen
Proliferation in recent years of a literature that seeks to examine the sources, content, and meanings of whiteness in American life stems from several factors. Most consequentially, as Professor Arnesen maintains, the turn to “whiteness studies” emerges from a version of the question crystallized more than a century ago by Werner Sombart, “Why is there no socialism in America?” The literature produced under this rubric is generally marred by con…
Stirrings in the Jug
Race and Class in the Work of Oliver Cromwell Cox
Oliver Cromwell Cox's Caste, Class, and Race was first published in 1948 by Doubleday, which, in line with the anti-leftist imperatives of the time, almost immediately let the book go out of print. Fortunately, it was reissued in 1959 by Monthly Review Press, which has enabled subsequent generations to read Cox's extraordinary text. Indeed, I discovered Cox through Monthly Review's Modern Reader paperback edition in 1970; coincidentally, that was…
W. E. B. Du Bois and American Political Thought
W. E. B. Du Bois and American Political Thought
Journal Article W. E. B. Du Bois and American Political Thought: Fabianism and the Color Line. By Adolph L. Reed Jr. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. xiv, 282 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-505174-2.) Get access Keith Byerman Keith Byerman Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, Pages 1128–1129, https://d…
W.E B. Du Bois and American Political Thought
This groundbreaking study of W.E.B. DuBois simultaneously analyses the political thought of one of the leading black American intellectuals and activists of this century, provides a model for the study of the history of political thought, and by examining recent DuBois scholarship, offers a penetrating interpretation of contemporary black thought. The book departs from existing DuBois scholarship by locating the sources of DuBois’s thinking in th…
DuBois's “Double Consciousness”
After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring …
Race and the Disruption of the New Deal Coalition
Marx, Race, and Neoliberalism
DuBois's “Double Consciousness”
After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring …
Black Particularity Reconsidered
Over forty years ago Benjamin pointed out that "mass reproduction is aided especially by the reproduction of masses." This statement captures the central cultural dynamic of a "late" capitalism. The triumph of the commodity form over every sphere of social existence has been made possible by a profound homogenization of work, play, aspirations and self-definition among subject populations — a condition Marcuse has characterized as one-dimensional…
The Post-1965 Trajectory of Race, Class, and Urban Politics in the United States Reconsidered
Comments by Larry Bennett, Cynthia Horan, Cedric Johnson, and Timothy Weaver prompted me to reflect on and connect my work on race ideology, the underclass idea, class dynamics in American politics, and the evolution of urban governance and the terms of black political incorporation since the 1990s. Race is best understood as a particular instance of a class of ideologies that work to justify existing hierarchies by reading them into nature. Unde…
Race and Class in the Work of Oliver Cromwell Cox
Oliver Cromwell Cox's Caste, Class, and Race was first published in 1948 by Doubleday, which, in line with the anti-leftist imperatives of the time, almost immediately let the book go out of print. Fortunately, it was reissued in 1959 by Monthly Review Press, which has enabled subsequent generations to read Cox's extraordinary text. Indeed, I discovered Cox through Monthly Review's Modern Reader paperback edition in 1970; coincidentally, that was…
The Declining Significance of Race
William Julius Wilson. The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions. University of Chicago Press, 1978. $12.50
The Kerner Commission and the Irony of Antiracist Politics
The explosions of “urban unrest” in the 1960s became almost immediately, and have remained, something like Rorschach tests or ventriloquist dummies for scholars, journalists, and advocates of political programs across the ideological spectrum. Our prompt notes that taxonomizing those events was and is a theater of ideological contestation. It could hardly have been otherwise. Especially the major riots—Harlem, Watts, Cleveland, Detroit, Newark, e…
Response to Eric Arnesen
Proliferation in recent years of a literature that seeks to examine the sources, content, and meanings of whiteness in American life stems from several factors. Most consequentially, as Professor Arnesen maintains, the turn to “whiteness studies” emerges from a version of the question crystallized more than a century ago by Werner Sombart, “Why is there no socialism in America?” The literature produced under this rubric is generally marred by con…
Black Urban Administrations
The elections of Harold Washington and Wilson Goode, along with the near election of Mel King, have generated new speculations about black urban adminstrations. The tacit assumptions here concern the significance of these administrations for racial democracy in the U.S. The fact that a black or Hispanic candidate is elected mayor is taken as evidence of “progress.” Presumably, if an electorate selects a candidate, that candidate must have been ab…
Why Labor's Soldiering for the Democrats is a Losing Battle
The 2004 Election in Perspective
Why did George W. Bush win the 2004 presidential election? Why did John Kerry lose it? Where to look for answers to those questions and how to interpret them are nearly as much part of the positional warfare of politics as was the election itself. In fact, postelection commentary often seems like a Rorschach test. Analysts typically find what they had predicted. And there can be more than a grain of truth to many, if not all, of their explanation…
Paths to Critical Theory
humanistic gestures of politicking, making veiled threats and uneasy alliances, and devising ad hoc surprises. Survival depends on being unpredictable, using the loopholes and insisting on the right to define our own reality and get the benefits to be extracted from our society. Yes, yes, the doubters always say at this point, was all very well in the 60s, but what about the 80s? I reject the notion that each decade brings with it obligatory rebi…
Marxism and Nationalism in Afroamerica
Pan-Africanism-Ideology for Liberation
(1971). Pan-Africanism-Ideology for Liberation? The Black Scholar: Vol. 3, Young Black Writers, pp. 2-13
Strategy for a Communist Agenda
Workers’ Self-Management and Social Property”
The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. And just when they seem engaged in revolutionizing themselves and things, in creating something that has never existed, precisely in such periods of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjur up the spirits of the past to their service and borrow from them names, battle cries and costumes in order to present the new scene of world history in this time-ho…
Black Particularity Reconsidered
Over forty years ago Benjamin pointed out that "mass reproduction is aided especially by the reproduction of masses." This statement captures the central cultural dynamic of a "late" capitalism. The triumph of the commodity form over every sphere of social existence has been made possible by a profound homogenization of work, play, aspirations and self-definition among subject populations — a condition Marcuse has characterized as one-dimensional…
Toward the Final Solution
George L. Mosse. Toward the Final Solution: A History of European Racism. Howard Fertig: New York, 1978. 227 plus xvi pages. $18.50
The Declining Significance of Race
William Julius Wilson. The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions. University of Chicago Press, 1978. $12.50
Paths to Critical Theory
humanistic gestures of politicking, making veiled threats and uneasy alliances, and devising ad hoc surprises. Survival depends on being unpredictable, using the loopholes and insisting on the right to define our own reality and get the benefits to be extracted from our society. Yes, yes, the doubters always say at this point, was all very well in the 60s, but what about the 80s? I reject the notion that each decade brings with it obligatory rebi…
W.E.B. Dubois
E.B. DUBOIS is by all accounts acentral figure in the history of Afro-American political activity, a major contributor to a halfcentury's debate over the condition of and proper goals and strategies for the black population. Yet little scholarly work has concentrated on the specifically political component of his thinking. Moreover, such attention as has been given to DuBois's political ideas either is ancillary to some other intellectual purpose…
Black Urban Administrations
The elections of Harold Washington and Wilson Goode, along with the near election of Mel King, have generated new speculations about black urban adminstrations. The tacit assumptions here concern the significance of these administrations for racial democracy in the U.S. The fact that a black or Hispanic candidate is elected mayor is taken as evidence of “progress.” Presumably, if an electorate selects a candidate, that candidate must have been ab…
Race, politics, and culture
This lively and provocative collection of essays on the social upheavals of the 1960s is a major contribution to our understanding of that tumultuous decade. Written by a group of former sixties activists, most of whom are now academics, it combines a unique transracial dialogue on that activism with incisive analyses of the context within which radicalism developed
Nominating Committee Welcomes Suggestions
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The Jesse Jackson Phenomenon
Journal Article The Jesse Jackson Phenomenon: The Crisis of Purpose in Afro-American Politics. By Adolph L. Reed, Jr. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. xii + 170 pp. Cloth, $17.50; paper, $5.95.) Get access Manning Marable Manning Marable Ohio State University, Columbus Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 4, March 1988, Page 1395, https://doi.org/10.2307/189…
Council Minutes August 31, 1988
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Race and the Disruption of the New Deal Coalition
DuBois's “Double Consciousness”
After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring …
W.E B. Du Bois and American Political Thought
This groundbreaking study of W.E.B. DuBois simultaneously analyses the political thought of one of the leading black American intellectuals and activists of this century, provides a model for the study of the history of political thought, and by examining recent DuBois scholarship, offers a penetrating interpretation of contemporary black thought. The book departs from existing DuBois scholarship by locating the sources of DuBois’s thinking in th…
W. E. B. Du Bois and American Political Thought
Journal Article W. E. B. Du Bois and American Political Thought: Fabianism and the Color Line. By Adolph L. Reed Jr. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. xiv, 282 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-505174-2.) Get access Keith Byerman Keith Byerman Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, Pages 1128–1129, https://d…
W. E. B. Du Bois and American Political Thought
Response to Eric Arnesen
Proliferation in recent years of a literature that seeks to examine the sources, content, and meanings of whiteness in American life stems from several factors. Most consequentially, as Professor Arnesen maintains, the turn to “whiteness studies” emerges from a version of the question crystallized more than a century ago by Werner Sombart, “Why is there no socialism in America?” The literature produced under this rubric is generally marred by con…
Stirrings in the Jug
Race and Class in the Work of Oliver Cromwell Cox
Oliver Cromwell Cox's Caste, Class, and Race was first published in 1948 by Doubleday, which, in line with the anti-leftist imperatives of the time, almost immediately let the book go out of print. Fortunately, it was reissued in 1959 by Monthly Review Press, which has enabled subsequent generations to read Cox's extraordinary text. Indeed, I discovered Cox through Monthly Review's Modern Reader paperback edition in 1970; coincidentally, that was…
Reinventing the Working Class
Reinventing the Working Class
The Logic of Democratic Exclusion
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAdolph ReedAdolph Reed, Jr., a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, is the author most recently of Class Notes: Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene (New Press, 2000) and Stirrings in the Jug: Black Politics in the Post-Segregation Era (University of Minnesota Press, 1999)
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