Adolph L. Reed Jr.
Adolph L. Reed Jr.
Articles by Adolph L. Reed, Jr., Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in race and American politics.
Black particularity reconsidered - Adolph L. Reed Jr.
An in-depth 1970s analysis of how the management of black dissent by the black American middle-class/professional elite helped restructure capitalism to its own advantage.
"[i]Black Power presupposed a mass-organizational model built on the assumption of a homogeneity of black political interests to be dealt with through community leadership. It is this notion of "black community" that has blocked development of a radical critique in the Civil Rights movement by contraposing an undifferentiated mass to a leadership stratum representing it.
