Adolph Reed, Jr.

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Adolph Reed

Prof. Adolph L. Reed, Jr. serves on the Board of Directors of Public Citizen Inc.[1] Reed is currently Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught at Howard, Yale, and Northwestern Universities, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the New School for Social Research.

His most recent book is The South: Jim Crow and its Afterlives (Verso 2022), and he is co-author with Walter Benn Michaels of the forthcoming No Politics but Class Politics (Eris 2023).

He has been a columnist in The Progressive, The Village Voice, and The New Republic and has written frequently in The Nation, Dissent, nonsite.org, of which he is an editorial board member, and many other academic and popular journals and magazines. He was a member of the Interim National Council of the Labor Party, and the executive committee of the American Association of University Professors, and he is currently on the boards of Food & Water Action and the Debs-Jones-Douglass Institute (DJDI) and is a regular on DJDI’s Class Matters podcast.[2]

The Progressive

Reed has been a frequent contributor to the liberal magazine, The Progressive.

DSA member

Adolph Reed, Jr. was formerly a member of Democratic Socialists of America[3].

Socialist Scholars Conference 1990

The Socialist Scholars Conference 1990, held September 6-8, at the Hotel Commodore, New York, included panels such as:[4]

Race and Class

1995 DSA Youth Conference

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In August 1995 Adolph Reed, Jr., Ginny Coughlin, Joanne Landy, Jeremy Smith, Stephen Coats, Paul Rogat Loeb, Lauren Berlant, Joseph Schwartz, Shakoor Aljuwani, Ron Aronson and Eric Vega, spoke at the Democratic Socialists of America Youth Section conference in Chicago.[5]

Black Radical Congress

In March 1998 “Endorsers of the Call” to found a Black Radical Congress included Adolph Reed, Labor Party, Chicago[6].

How Class Works

At the How Class Works - 2002 Conference, panels included; 3.0 Class and Public Policy

Open letter to Andy Stern

On May 1 2008, Adolph Reed, a Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania signed an open letter to SEIU president Andy Stern in protest at SEIU move to force its local United Healthcare Workers into trusteeship.

"We are writing to express our deep concern about SEIU's threatened trusteeship over its third largest local, United Healthcare Workers (UHW). We believe that there must always be room within organized labor for legitimate and principled dissent, if our movement is to survive and grow. Putting UHW under trusteeship would send a very troubling message and be viewed, by many, as a sign that internal democracy is not valued or tolerated within SEIU. In our view, this would have negative consequences for the workers directly affected, the SEIU itself, and the labor movement as a whole. We strongly urge you to avoid such a tragedy."

"Support Bill Ayers"

In October 2008, several thousand college professors, students and academic staff signed a statement Support Bill Ayers in solidarity with former Weather Underground Organization terrorist Bill Ayers.

In the run up to the U.S. presidential elections, Ayers had come under considerable media scrutiny, sparked by his relationship to presidential candidate Barack Obama.

We write to support our colleague Professor William Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago, who is currently under determined and sustained political attack...
We, the undersigned, stand on the side of education as an enterprise devoted to human inquiry, enlightenment, and liberation. We oppose the demonization of Professor William Ayers.

Adolph Reed, Jr. of the University of Pennsylvania signed the statement.[8]

Interim National Council

As at April 2005, the following served as chairs on the National Council of the Labor Party:[9]

Center for the Study of Working Class Life

In 2009 Adolph Reed, Political Science, University of Pennsylvania served as an Academic on the Advisory board for the Center for the Study of Working Class Life[10].

New Labor Forum

New Labor Forum is published by Center for Labor, Community, and Policy Studies, Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education & Labor Studies.

Editorial Board members listed, as of March 2013; were;[11] Elaine Bernard, Ron Blackwell, Barbara Bowen, Kate Bronfenbrenner, Arthur Cheliotes, Mike Davis, Amy Dean, Steve Early, Hector Figueroa, Janice Fine, Bill Fletcher, Jr., Juan Gonzalez, Marie Gottschalk, Gerald Hudson, Lisa Jordan, Tom Juravich, Robin D G Kelley, Jose LaLuz, Nelson Lichtenstein, Manning Marable, Ruth Needleman, Ai-jen Poo, Katie Quan, Adolph Reed, Jr., Daisy Rooks, Andrew Ross, Kent Wong.

External links

References

  1. ↑ Public Citizen Board of Directors
  2. ↑ [1]
  3. ↑ http://www.Facebook.com/topic.php?uid=2205133680&topic=2579
  4. ↑ Second Annual Socialist Scholars Conference program.
  5. ↑ Democratic Left July/August 1995, page 11
  6. ↑ http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/524.html
  7. ↑ How Class Works - 2002 Conference Schedule (accessed July 24 2010)
  8. ↑ Liberal Education website: Bill Ayers supporters
  9. ↑ Labor Party News April 2005 (accessed on Dec. 31, 2010)
  10. ↑ http://www.stonybrook.edu/workingclass/about/advisory.shtml
  11. ↑ NLF website, accessed March 6,2013
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