Stirrings in the Jug: Black Politics in the Post-Segregation Era - Softcover

Adolph Reed Jr.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816626812 ISBN 13: 9780816626816

Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press, 1999

Synopsis

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. Reed debunks as myths the 'endangered black male" and the "black underclass, " and punctures what he views as the exaggeration and self-deception surrounding the black power movement and the Malcolm X revival. He chastises the Left, too, for its failure to develop an alternative politics, then lays out a practical leftist agenda and reasserts the centrality of political action.

About this title

About the Author

Adolph L. Reed, Jr. is a member of the Graduate Faculty of Political Science at the New School of Social Research . He is also a regular columnist for The Village Voice and a frequent contributor to The Progressive and The Nation.
Sara Bullard is editor of Teaching Tolerance, a national educational magazine, and director of the Teaching Tolerance Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama.
Julian Bond is currently a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the American University in Washington, D.C., and a Visiting Professor at Williams College.

Review

...Adolph Reed Jr. uses these essays to examine where black leadership has failed and where black action may yet succeed. -- The New York Times Book Review, Allen D. Boyer

Edition details

• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0816626812
• ISBN 13: 9780816626816
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320