“Race Reductionism as Class Mythology: From the Solid South to Neoliberal Antiracism,” October 24 Colloquium with University of Pennsylvania Emeritus Professor of Political Science Adolph Reed, Jr.

University of Pennsylvania Emeritus Professor of Political Science Adloph Reed, Jr. will return to the Kinder Institute’s Colloquium Series on October 24, giving a talk on the broader historical implications of the motivations underlying the contemporary struggle to remove monuments to slaveowners, the Confederacy, and segregationists from public places. The talk will be held at 3:30pm in Jesse 410, and this post will be updated with live stream links as they become available.

Abstract

This talk examines the struggle to remove monuments to slaveowners, the Confederacy, and segregationists from public places. It argues that a commitment to a politics centered on race serves as motivation for those seeking to remove the monuments in much the same way that it did for those who erected them in the first place. The presentation derives from a chapter in my forthcoming book with Kenneth Warren, Black Studies, Cultural Politics and the Evasion of Inequality.

Adolph Reed Jr. is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Reed is the author or editor of several influential books, including Class Notes: Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Science, The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives, and Renewing Black Intellectual History: The Ideological and Material Foundations of African American Thought. He has also written extensively for publications such as The Nation, Jacobin, and Harper’s Magazine.