It was described as a wonderful book that was highly recommended, focusing on the Jim Crow era and its impact on American society, specifically in the South. It explored the mundane nature of life under Jim Crow and how it influenced the author's perspective on class and race.
One of my favorite human beings and one of the most interesting thinkers I think in American life today, Adolf Reed Jr. is going to join us to talk about his new book, The South, which is wonderful an...
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It was described as a wonderful book that was highly recommended, focusing on the Jim Crow era and its impact on American society, specifically in the South. It explored the mundane nature of life under Jim Crow and how it influenced the author's perspective on class and race.
One of my favorite human beings and one of the most interesting thinkers I think in American life today, Adolf Reed Jr. is going to join us to talk about his new book, The South, which is wonderful and I highly recommend.
It's called the South, Jim Crow and its Afterlives...
I didn't get any special insight right... I just inherited the family business.
The first thing that was was normal life right... there was normal life and people formed aspirations and tried to pursue them... within the context that assumed that the hegemonic political and economic order right.
A focus on the past must not sidestep the need to confront what actually reproduces inequality in the present.
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It was described as a detailed look at Jim Crow and its lasting impacts, challenging the idea that white supremacy is ahistorical and instead focusing on the institutional factors that contribute to racial inequality.
I would say it's not exactly...well, the chronology is quite different because I actually started working on this around the beginning of the century around 2002 or 2003...after discussions with a couple of friends we both have roots in the deep south...one about a decade younger than I, one about seven years older and our recollections around a turn of the current century that our rough age cohort was going to be the last in the United States with any living recollections of what life under Jim Crow was like.
...the sense that you know the country is founded on slavery, the country is founded on racism...and I think one of the problems that's both a political problem and an interpretive problem is a shift from seeing racial inequality as being rooted in institutions and institutional practices...to seeing it as all about the attitude and so that racism becomes the answer to the question of racial inequality.
...the way that people talk about slavery now...you could say this about Jim Crow era and sharecropping and whatever else...is at the point of slavery was to produce white supremacy, not to produce cotton, rice and tobacco.
...people now like to talk about slavery or Jim Crow like it was white people's permanent sadistic camp...but the fact is that there was normal life and people formed aspirations and tried to pursue them within the context that assumed that the hegemonic political and economic order.
...the street...the closest street or block that intersected with the block that my family lived on it was named after a fellow named General Ogden...and until I was well into adulthood, well into my 30s, I had no idea who this General Ogden guy was...and I found out during a moment of controversy...but General Ogden it turns out was the commander of the Crescent City White League that led an armed insurrection against the reconstruction government and its metropolitan police force in 1874.
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It was described as a book about Jim Crow and its lasting impact on American society, and was not a memoir as it was thought to be. It was seen as a reaction to the 1619 Project's framing of American history.
the sense that you know the country is founded on slavery the country is founded on racism and i think one of the problems that's both a political problem and an interpretive problem is a shift uh from seeing um racial inequality is being rooted in institutions and institutional practices for instance like slavery as a labor system right that segregation or Jim Crow as a complex of of of institutions structures laws uh and other constraints to seeing it as all about the attitude
the way that people talk about slavery now and you could say this about Jim Crow era and sharecropping and and whatever else is at the point of slavery was to produce white supremacy right not to produce cotton rice uh and and and and tobacco
i didn't start writing this to write a book i mean i just started writing it to write it i had no idea where it was going and i very quickly wrote myself into that 15 000 word no person's land which was too long for an article and too short for a book but but but my idea was just to sort of leave some sort of record about what concrete quotidian life was like uh in the Jim Crow order and what the order was itself where it came from what what but what its historical sources and boundaries were right
the high period of um of neoliberal anti-racism as as bursting forth around 2015 2016 when when all of a sudden um you know political anti-racism uh became a raid publicly and aggressively against uh social democratic politics in the US
i didn't get any special insight right i mean i've often said i know i've said this only partly just about obama but that it can be better uh more important to be in the right place at the right time keep your eyes open then to be smart