Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesĬreative Commons Attribution 4. Podcast production by John Taylor Williams, and Brendan Ruberry Dubois & American Political Thought A BOOK TV recording of a lecture that took place at MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE, South Hadley, MA., presented by Adolph Reed, Author. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. discuss how the mainstream American conception of race has developed since the early 20th century, why and how much of the modern left has become “race-reductionist,” and what actions we can pursue to address both racial and economic injustice in the future. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Adolph Reed, Jr. He has written widely about race and class and is the author, most recently, of The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives, which presents a granular look at the reality of life as he and others experienced it under Jim Crow. Adolph Reed Jr., the distinguished political scientist and commentator, became interested in politics early in life. is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. 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.Adolph Reed, Jr.

The South is more than a memoir or a history.

Flowing seamlessly between memoir and historical argument, Reed maps the ways the segregationist order buttressed ruling class power, the processes that lead to its unravelling, and the enduring legacy that is still so evident today.

This book reproduces in vivid detail that everyday realm in which the rules and ideological premises of Jim Crow came up against the practicalities of getting on with life, where formal precepts didn't provide useful guidance for behavior or interaction. In this memoir-come-history, we see America's apartheid system from the ground up, not just the legal framework or systems of power and interests but the way these systems structured day to day interaction.Īs the living memory of Jim Crow fades, its laws and horrors-and its heroic defeat-will be remembered. A memoir and historical account of growing up in the Jim Crow South by a renowned political theoristįamed for his political theory and commentary on class and race in American politics, Adolph Reed guides us through the quotidian contours of the Jim Crow south.

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