Class Notes: Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene

The classic and deeply prescient collection that explores the multifaceted nature of race, class, and identity in America, from one of our most insightful and iconoclastic intellectuals Class Notes is a collection of critic Adolph Reed Jr.'s clearest thinking on matters of race, class, and other American dilemmas. With barbed wit, Reed takes aim against the solipsistic, individualistic approaches of identity politics, and in favor of class-based political interpretation and action. Reed leaves no topic untouched, from the myth that there, exists a particular kind of "Black Anti-Semitism," to the grift perpetuated by commentators, who claim to speak for groups solely based on their identity categories.