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Bayard Rustin Was No Hollywood Figurehead
This new biopic about the socialist organizer Bayard Rustin stops at the March on Washington. What is it leaving out?
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Adolph Reed Jr.
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The Nation
on
December 12, 2023
The Uses of Affirmative Action
The right denounced it as “reverse racism,” while the liberal center hailed it as the endpoint of egalitarianism. But it has never been either.
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Adolph Reed Jr.
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The Nation
on
August 9, 2023
Is It Useful to Analyze Politics in Terms of Generations?
Keir Milburn argues that generational analysis can explain class operation while Adolph Reed Jr. writes that it obscures historically specific social relations.
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Adolph Reed Jr.
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Keir Milburn
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The Nation
on
July 14, 2023
*The South*: The Past, Historicity, and Black American History (Part II)
Exploring recent debates about the uses–and utility–of Black history in both the academic and public spheres.
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Adolph Reed Jr.
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U.S. Intellectual History Blog
on
April 10, 2023
Bayard Rustin: The Panthers Couldn’t Save Us Then Either
Rustin’s assessment of the lay of the political land was predicated on a no-nonsense understanding of the radicalism of the moment.
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Adolph Reed Jr.
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Nonsite
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January 8, 2023
Black Capitalism in One City
Soul City was a boondoggle—not a story of lost or forgotten roads tragically not taken.
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Adolph Reed Jr.
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Dissent
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May 25, 2022
No Quick Fixes: Working Class Politics From Jim Crow to the Present
Political scientist Adolph Reed Jr. discusses his new memoir.
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Adolph Reed Jr.
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Jon Queally
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Common Dreams
on
February 1, 2022
The Surprising Cross-Racial Saga of Modern Wealth Inequality
Why the “racial wealth gap” fails to explain economic inequality in black and white America.
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Adolph Reed Jr.
via
The New Republic
on
June 29, 2020
The Trouble With Uplift
A curiously inflexible brand of race-first neoliberalism has taken root in American political discourse.
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Adolph Reed Jr.
via
The Baffler
on
September 4, 2018
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Has Black Lives Matter Changed the World?
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No, the GI Bill Did Not Make Racial Inequality Worse
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The 1619 Project and the Demands of Public History
The ambitious Times endeavor reveals the difficulties that greet a journalistic project when it aspires to shift a founding narrative of the past.
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The Wages of Whiteness
One idea inherited from 1960s radicalism is that of “white privilege,” a protean concept invoked to explain wealth, political power, and even cognition.
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The Great Toppling of 2020 and the rebirth of civic imagination.
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The Myth of the “Sixties”
When we mythologize the ’60s, we lose sight of what’s truly ahead of us.
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The Mismeasure of Minds
25 years later, The Bell Curve’s analysis of race and intelligence refuses to die.
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The Big Picture: The Right Type of Citizenship
Citizens pledge their allegiance to a nation that reciprocates with a pledge of allegiance to them. What does that look like?
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The Charmer
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