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<p><strong>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</strong></p><p>Hailed by&#160;<em>Publishers Weekly</em>&#160;for its &#8220;forceful&#8221; and &#8220;bracing opinions on race and politics,&#8221;&#160;<em>Class Notes</em>&#160;is a collection of critic Adolph Reed Jr.&#8217;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 &#8220;Black Anti-Semitism,&#8221; to the grift perpetuated by commentators who claim to speak for groups solely based on their identity categories.</p><p>Adolph Reed Jr. remains one of our most controversial and necessary interpreters of American politics. These essays illustrate why Reed is &#8220;the smartest person of any race, class, or gender writing on race, class, and gender&#8221; (Katha Pollitt). <em>Class Notes</em> is a classic text that signposts a path for the Left&#8212;out of essentialist gridlock and into meaningful, goal-oriented mass politics.</p>

<div>Adolph Reed Jr. is a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the editor of <i>Race, Politics, and Culture</i> and <i>Without Justice for All</i> and the author of <i>The Jesse Jackson Phenomenon</i>, <i>W.E.B. Du Bois and American Political Thought</i>, and <i>Stirrings in the Jug</i>.<br></div>