Adolph Reed Jr: Race, Class and Capitalism | Doomscroll

My guest is Adolph Reed Jr, a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Politics at Mount Holyoke College. Part 2:   / doomscroll-reed-173520645   Reed is the author of many books including his most recent work, co-authored with Kenneth Warren, “Black Studies, Cultural Politics, and the Evasion of Inequality”. In 1996, he was a founding member of the labor party in the US. He is a board member of Nonsite.org and a founding member of the Debs-Jones-Douglass Institute.   / joshuacitarella   0:00 Intro 0:57 Woke & the Neoliberal turn 6:26 Anti-racism & inequality 14:19 How to defeat Trumpism 20:11 Labor vs elections 29:28 NGOs & poverty 36:21 Race vs social democracy 46:21 Trump vs Obama 54:33 Racecraft 1:04:05 DSA & representation 1:11:35 Elections 1:17:29 Race & law 1:26:25 Physiognomy & Victorians 1:30:34 Culture & institutions 1:37:14 Jim Crow & social change 1:51:13 Rebuilding the left 1:58:36 Neoliberalism vs theory 2:08:52 Activists & the middle class 2:13:47 1960s, protest & social media 2:20:29 1940s, unions & organization 2:27:00 History of racial politics 1970s 2:34:07 History of racial politics 1990s 2:41:46 History of racial politics 2010s 2:48:45 The New Deal vs today 2:52:39 How to move forward