Adolph L. Reed, Jr.

Adolph L. Reed, Jr. is a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in race and American politics. A sometimes controversial academic, he taught at Yale, Northwestern and the New School for Social Research. An expert on racial and economic inequality, he is a founder of the Labor Party and a frequent contributor to The Progressive and The Nation.

Selected works

Without Justice for All: The New Liberalism and Our Retreat from Racial Equality (2001) ISBN 978-0813320519
Class Notes: Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene (2000) ISBN 978-1565846753
Stirrings in the Jug: Black Politics in the Post-Segregation Era (1999) ISBN 978-0816626816
W.E.B. Dubois and American Political Thought: Fabianism and the Color Line (1997) ISBN 978-0195130980
The Jesse Jackson Phenomenon: The Crisis of Purpose in Afro-American Politics (1986) ISBN 978-0300035438
Race, Politics, and Culture: Critical Essays on the Radicalism of the 1960s (editor) (1986) ISBN 978-0313244803
“Black Particularity Reconsidered”. Telos 39 (Spring 1979). New York: Telos Press.