Stirrings In The Jug: Black Politics In The Post-Segregation Era [Paperback]

Adolph Reed Jr. (Author), Adolph Reed Jr. (Author)

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...Adolph Reed Jr. uses these essays to examine where black leadership has failed and where black action may yet succeed. -- The New York Times Book Review, Allen D. Boyer

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• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press; 1 edition (September 24, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0816626812
• ISBN-13: 978-0816626816
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #961,911 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Clean out the cobwebs in your head, May 28, 2007

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This review is from: Stirrings In The Jug: Black Politics In The Post-Segregation Era (Paperback)

Reed is one of the most acute, fearless and useful commentators on American politics and intellectual history. I rarely agree with everything he says (I tend to give more play to identity politics and see more value in culture, esp. popular culture), but no one can make me question my own take on a subject as assiduously as Reed. For my purposes this volume is not quite at the same level as Class Notes or his masterpiece on WEB DuBois, but for those with an interest in urban development/planning it is definitive (though see also the new volume on post-Katrina New Orleans). The chapter on the Malcolm X revival of the early 1990s was enjoyable for someone who lived through it and gives Reed an excuse to provide a nutshell version of his take on post-1963 African American politics and rehash his critique of Jesse Jackson. But it also gives him a chance to show off his old-codger dismissal of hip hop. Oh well--no one is perfect.