Adolph L. Reed Jr.
Adolph Reed | |
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| Born | Adolph Leonard Reed Jr. January 14, 1947 The Bronx, New York, U.S. |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (BA) Atlanta University (PhD) |
| Thesis | W.E.B Dubois, Liberal Collectivism and the Effort to Consolidate a Black Elite (1981) |
| Doctoral advisor | Alex Willingham |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Political science |
| Sub-discipline | American studies |
| Institutions | |
Adolph Leonard Reed Jr. (born January 14, 1947) is an American professor emeritus of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in studies of issues of racism and U.S. politics.
He has taught at Yale, Northwestern, and the New School for Social Research and he has written on racial and economic inequality. He is a contributing editor to The New Republic and has been a frequent contributor to The Progressive, The Nation, and other left-wing publications. He is a founding member of the U.S. Labor Party.