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The Good Fight

Adolph Reed, Jr. on Race and Class in America

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

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4.7963 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Adolph Reed, Jr. is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written widely about race and class and is the author, most recently, of The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives, which presents a granular look at the reality of life as he and others experienced it under Jim Crow. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Adolph Reed, Jr. discuss how the mainstream American conception of race has developed since the early 20th century, why and how much of the modern left has become “race-reductionist,” and what actions we can pursue to address both racial and economic injustice in the future. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: podcast@persuasion.community  Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by John Taylor Williams, and Brendan Ruberry Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

At Barclays, we're here for the land of football.

0:06.4

We're here for the Premier League,

0:09.0

and the Barclays Women's Super League.

0:12.1

We're here for the football chance for giving more girls a chance.

0:18.0

We're here for the grassroots and all the muddy boots. From schools to stadiums, we're here for it all.

0:27.6

Barclays, here for the land of football.

0:31.2

But I think a discussion is to begin from acknowledgement that there is no left in the US and hasn't been for quite some time.

0:39.0

Now, I realize that in saying that what I'm actually stipulating is that a left is what you and I grew up understanding a left to be.

0:47.0

But through a process of semantic inflation and infiltration over the last four decades.

0:54.0

What people generally understand to be left has been disconnected from political economy

1:00.0

and linked to performances of identity basically.

1:05.0

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

1:11.0

In the last three installments of this podcast I gave you a sense of why it is so hard

1:20.3

to build ethnically and religiously diverse democracies of why the great

1:26.3

experiment of building ethnically and religious diverse democracies that

1:30.9

actually treat a member as true equals is such a difficult challenge.

1:36.5

For the next week I want to start to talk about the vision of a society in which people from every demographic group

1:48.3

would actually be excited to live in. And one core part of a vision, of course, is an answer to the question of how

1:56.7

we should regulate the coexistence between the state, between different ethnic and religious groups and between individuals.

2:05.0

Do philosophical liberals have the right answer in setting the basic rules of such a society,

2:12.0

or do communitarians who take groups the basic rules of such a society?

2:12.6

Or do communitarians who take groups

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