"Adolph L. Reed Jr.-- New Orleanian, political scientist, and, according to Cornel West, "the greatest democratic theorist of his generation"-- takes up the urgent task of recounting the granular realities of life in the last decades of the Jim Crow South"--
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"Adolph L. Reed Jr.-- New Orleanian, political scientist, and, according to Cornel West, "the greatest democratic theorist of his generation"-- takes up the urgent task of recounting the granular realities of life in the last decades of the Jim Crow South"--
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Adolph Reed Jr., Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, has written extensively on race and American politics, including a study of DuBois, "W.E.B DuBois and American Thought: Fabianism and the Color Line" (1997). Influenced by Marx, Reed emphasizes the importance of class and economics in American life.
In his recent short book "The South: Jim Crow and its Afterlives" (2022), Reed brings a personal approach to the study of Jim Crow in the South. Born in 1947, Reed points out that he is of the last generation with first-hand experience of Jim Crow before the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He writes to preserve his own experiences of Jim Crow while he was young. Reed and I are of the same age, which enhanced my interest in his thoughts.
In some ways, Reed's experiences were atypical. He was born in New York City and also lived in Washington, D.C. before his family moved to New Orleans where he spent most of his childhood. Reed's family was solidly middle-class, and his father was a professor. The family had relatives in the South, and Reed travelled considerably through Louisiana, the Delta regions of Arkansas and Mississippi, and North Carolina. His book emphasizes throughout that Jim Crow was not monolithic. Each individual is unique, and each experienced it differently. Further Jim Crow varied throughout the South and, often, varied within individual places. New Orleans, for example, was a cosmopolitan city, where the Jim Crow rules varied from neighborhood to neighborhood and from store to store. Reed's book has a distinctly personal tone.
In "The South", Reed is a storyteller more than a political scientist. The five chapters in the book consist largely of stories of growing up in the 1950-1960 South juxtaposed with stories of his experiences when he returned to the South in the years after Jim Crow, from the 1980s and after. He reflects upon his experiences for an understanding of Jim Crow and for an understanding of how it changed and how it persisted after the mid-1960s. He describes his experiences in neighborhoods, shops, and on the road and makes the reader feel the pervasiveness yet changeable character of Jim Crow and segregation. He shows persistence of some Jim Crow attitudes in the post-1960s South and yet he is firm that the years of overt racial discrimination have largely and happily ended. His conclusion differs from many other writers who often argue that Jim Crow racism persists.
The book is at its best in its particularity and in Reed's descriptions and meditations on his experiences. He also discusses broader trends in considering Jim Crow such as the phenomenon of "passing" , which Reed tries to deflate from an issue of personal identity to one of pragmatism. He discusses as well the removal of four Confederate monuments in New Orleans in 2017. Reed was in the city at the time and discusses the significance and symbolism of this process.
In addition to preserving his own experiences of Jim Crow, Reed expands his scope to reflect on the natures of continuity and change in Southern life. As noted, he finds the particular Jim Crow codes of racial subordination largely gone. But in a deeper sense, Reed finds it persists. With his Marxist orientation, Reed finds that Jim Crow even in its heyday was less a matter of race than a matter of class with those in power trying to exploit and to use others. Reed finds that the demographics of class may have changed since the demise of racial Jim Crow. But he finds that the disparity in power and economics between various classes in the South and elsewhere remains all-too-real.
Reed's book is provocative in its understanding of historical change and continuity in the South and elsewhere. But the book is at its best on a more personal, experiential level as Reed meditates on his own life experiences.
