Product Description: Hailed by Publishers Weekly for its “forceful” and “bracing opinions on race and politics,” Class Notes is critic Adolph Reed Jr.’s latest blast of clear thinking on matters of race, class, and other American dilemmas. The book begins with a consideration of the theoretical and practical strategies of the U...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A new critique of public policy in the U.S. regarding race reveals how the nation's political and policy-making elite came to abandon notions of egalitarianism and the role of institutional racism to embrace the idea that minorities are responsible for their lot in life. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Skeptical of received wisdom, Reed casts a critical eye on political trends in the black community over the past thirty years. He examines the rise of a new black political class in the aftermath of the civil rights era, and bluntly denounces black leadership that is not accountable to a black constituency; such leadership, he says, functions as a proxy for white elites...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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