[D66] Stirrings in the Jug

[R.O.]

“to look within the jug, examine its varied contents, and pour them 
freely into the world.”


  Stirrings in the Jug


    Black Politics in the Post-Segregation Era

*1999*
•
Author:

Adolph Reed Jr.
Foreword by Julian Bond

Stirrings in the Jug

Adolph Reed Jr. has been called “the smartest person of any race, class, 
or gender writing on race, class, and gender” (Katha Pollitt, /Mother 
Jones/) and “refreshing and radical. Serious, even courageous” (Adam 
Schatz, /The Nation/)—as well as many less polite terms—for his 
bare-knuckled approach to political analysis. In/Stirrings in the Jug,/ 
Reed offers a sweeping and incisive analysis of racial politics during 
the post-civil rights era.

Skeptical of received wisdom, Reed casts a critical eye on political 
trends in the black community over the last thirty years. He examines 
the rise of a new black political class in the aftermath of the civil 
rights era, and bluntly denounces black leadership that is not 
accountable to a black constituency; such leadership, he says, functions 
as a proxy for white elites. Reed debunks as myths the “endangered black 
male” and the “black underclass,” and punctures what he views as the 
exaggeration and self-deception surrounding the black power movement and 
the Malcolm X revival. He chastises the Left, too, for its failure to 
develop an alternative politics, then lays out a practical leftist 
agenda and reasserts the centrality of political action.

“In the early 1960s,” Reed writes, “Ralph Ellison lamented the 
disposition ‘to see segregation as an opaque steel jug with the Negroes 
inside waiting for some black messiah to come along and blow the cork.’” 
In/Stirrings in the Jug, /Reed challenges us to advance emancipatory and 
egalitarian interests in black political life and in society at 
large—“to look within the jug, examine its varied contents, and pour 
them freely into the world.”

$24.50 paper ISBN 978-0-8166-2681-6
320 pages, 5 7/8 x 9, 1999


https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/stirrings-in-the-jug

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