Unlocked: Extended interview w/ Adolph Reed Jr.
Anti-Racism, USA • May 15, 2019 • Adolph Reed Jr.
In this segment the discussion deals with the extent to which the prevalence of racism helps to explain Trump’s victory, the misapprehension of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade by academics and activists, and what the Left in the US can do to move forward in the present political context.
Adolph Reed, Jr. is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Pennsylvania and an organizer with the Debs-Jones-Douglass Institute’s Medicare for All-South Carolina initiative. His most recent books are The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives (Verso, 2022) and with Walter Benn Michaels, No Politics but Class Politics (ERIS, September 2022).
