Jim Crow, he argues, has been conspicuously overlooked in contemporary discussions about race and slavery, which flatten history ( “the bad old timey-times” ).Ģ0:20: An aside on Adolph’s polemic (2013) on Hollywood “race movies” such as Django Unchained and The Help. He first drafted the book in the 2000s after realizing his would be the last generation with clear memories of the Jim Crow order. Adolph periodizes Jim Crow from the 1890s-1960s, and he speaks about his formative years in Louisiana, North Carolina, Arkansas, and Atlanta. See: our conversation with Merlin Chowkwanyun (2020) on his work with Reed on racial disparity discourse (their piece on Covid reporting here)Ġ:00: The premise of the book and its reception ( The New Yorker, Common Dreams, Harper’s podcast ). We talk about what he calls “neoliberal race politics,” the charge against him of “class reductionism” ( NYT ), and the broader usefulness of this analysis to contexts across the US and the world. It was a coherent social order animated by ruling class power. Drawing from personal experience, he argues that racial segregation cannot be fully explained through abstract ideas about white supremacy and anti-Blackness. Emeritus at University of Pennsylvania, about his new book The South: Jim Crow and its Afterlives. Today it’s just me, Andy, talking with guest Adolph Reed, Prof.
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