Adolph Reed, author and professor of political science at the New School for Social Research, discussed, “W. E. B. Du Bois and the *Souls of Black Folk* 100 Years Later: Race and Politics in Post-Jim Crow America,” February 17 in the Chapel at Hamilton College. The lecture was held to commemorate Black History Month at Hamilton.
Reed serves on the graduate faculty of political and social science at New School University. He is the author of Class Notes: Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene (2000), named by the New York Times Book Review as one of the most notable books of the year. He also wrote Stirrings in the Jug: Black Politics in the Post-Segregation Era (1999) and W.E.B. Du Bois and American Political Thought: Fabianism and the Color Line (1997), which was the winner of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists’ 1998 Outstanding Book Award.
Reed earned a master’s degree and Ph.D. in political science from Atlanta University. He previously taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Northwestern University and Yale.
Reed is the recipient of a 2002-03 Carnegie Corporation Scholars of Vision program grant for research on a project titled “Race in American Life: What It Is, What it Isn’t/How it Operates, How it Doesn’t.”
The lecture is being sponsored by Hamilton?s department of Africana Studies and the President’s office.
