Class Notes

Posing As Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene

By: Adolph L. Reed

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Paperback | 1 July 2001 | Edition Number 1

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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

Hailed by Publishers Weekly for its “forceful” and “bracing opinions on race and politics,” 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. These essays illustrate why Reed is “the smartest person of any race, class, or gender writing on race, class, and gender” (Katha Pollitt). Class Notes is a classic text that signposts a path for the Left—out of essentialist gridlock and into meaningful, goal-oriented mass politics.

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"Everything [Reed] writes is informed by a strong historical memory of a time when 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 Book Review

"Class Notes sparkles with wit and wisdom. Reed's essay on the political and intellectual left since the 1960s is the best analysis of American radicalism in print." -Judith Stein, professor of history, The City University of New York

"Provocative." -Booklist

"Opening Adolph Reed's Class Notes is like boarding a roller coaster. What follows is an opinionated, headspinning loop, brilliantly 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

"Brutally frank. . . . This book is definitely not your father's old mobilization rhetoric." -Bill Quigley, professor of law, Loyola University

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Preface	p. v
Introduction	p. vii
Issues in Black Public Life
Why Is There No Black Political Movement?	p. 3
The Curse of "Community"	p. 10
Romancing Jim Crow	p. 14
Have We Exhaled Yet?	p. 25
We Were Framed	p. 29
What Color Is Antisemitism?	p. 33
The Rise of Louis Farrakhan	p. 37
Triumph of the Tuskegee Will	p. 61
Martyrs and False Populists	p. 64
Tokens of the White Left	p. 71
"What Are the Drums Saying, Booker?": The Curious Role of the Black Public Intellectual	p. 77
Equality and Ideology in American Politics
The Underclass Myth	p. 93
Pimping Poverty, Then and Now	p. 101
Liberals, I Do Despise	p. 109
Kiss the Family Good-bye	p. 113
A Polluted Debate	p. 119
Nasty Habits	p. 124
A Livable Wage	p. 128
Token Equality	p. 133
Skin Deep	p. 139
The Content of Our Cardiovascular	p. 144
Looking Backward	p. 148
The Question of Practice
Posing As Politics	p. 167
Ethnic Studies and Pluralist Politics	p. 171
The Battle of Liberty Monument	p. 180
Looking Back at Brown	p. 187
Sectarians on the Prowl	p. 192
"Fayettenam," 1969: Tales from a G.I. Coffeehouse	p. 196
The Longer March	p. 203
Building Solidarity	p. 207
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