What Living Under Jim Crow Was Like In New Orleans (w/ Adolph Reed)
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Episode 218 (Originally aired 2/7/2023)
“What I didn’t realize at the time was that what I was living through was the death paroxysms of the Jim Crow order.” - Adolph Reed
Prof. Adolph Reed Jr. has been called (by Cornel West) “the towering radical theorist of American democracy of his generation.” His new book "The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives" is a departure from Reed’s previous work in political science, as it is a personal reflection on his upbringing as part of the last generation to experience the Jim Crow south firsthand. Reed grew up mostly in New Orleans (where this interview also took place) and vividly recalls both the everyday realities of the Jim Crow order and the remarkable process by which the regime was shattered. His book discusses what has changed and what hasn’t in the South. Today he joins to discuss the book and tell us more about how the Jim Crow order functioned in practice, what brought it to an end, and how seismic historical changes happen (sometimes much more quickly than you expect).
Adolph Reed’s previous appearance on the program can be heard here: / jubilee-day-7-29844524
and watched here: • Adolph Reed On Identit...
He mentions the book Black Masters: www.amazon.com...
and the Supreme Court cases Grovey v. Townsend (www.oyez.org/c...) and Smith v. Allwright (www.oyez.org/c....
Ben Burgis' review of Prof. Reed's book for Current Affairs is here: www.currentaff...
The 2020 controversy over Reed's DSA talk is reported on here: www.nytimes.co...
The Preston Smith article Prof. Reed mentions is here: nonsite.org/bl...
“When I’m out in different places in the South and see groups of coworkers or neighborhood friends at a Chili’s or TGI Fridays, they’re having drinks and a meal convivially-that doesn’t say anything major about who’s inclined to vote for socialism but that’s a level of complex experience and conviviality that wouldn’t have been possible before 1968.” - Adolph Reed
Adolph Reed is always a breath of fresh air!
Thank you!
Adolph Reed is the Thomas Sowell of the White Left.
Get a life.
@@beyondaboundary6034 Get another self-loathing mascot to carry your nonsensical "post-racial" message.
Nonsense
Say that you developed your world view 100 percent from the internet without saying it
@@timbohslice123 Actually my coming of age occurred grade school growing up in proximity to books written by Frantz Fanon, Walter Rodney and Dr. Eric Williams scattered about in my home.
What's your fly by night relationship to revolutionary writers.
Lemme guess. Reed claims Jim Crow was all about class not race. smh
No, he is clear that it was a vicious white supremacist regime based on oppression of Black folks ranging from lynch terror and apartheid to petty insults. But he also has a Marxist analysis of how and why the southern capitalist class established the regime and profited from it, and he doesn't idealize white workers either. You clearly didn't read his book if you think he dismisses the role of racism and racial oppression in the Jim Crow order.
Lemme guess. You didn’t listen to the interview or read the book.