Housing + Capitalism: Neoliberalism, the Underclass, and the Travesty of Urban Renewal
Adolph Reed, University of Pennsylvania professor emeritus of political science, outlines the political forces that shaped today’s housing system and what change could look like moving forward.
Introduced by Daniel Moak, Associate Professor of Government and author of From the New Deal to the War on Schools: Race, Inequality, and the Rise of the Punitive Education State (2022).
Speakers
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Adolph Reed
Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Politics at Mount Holyoke College
Adolph Reed Jr. is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Politics at Mount Holyoke College. He has taught at Howard, Yale, and Northwestern Universities, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the New School for Social Research.
His most recent books are The South: Jim Crow and its Afterlives (Verso 2022); No Politics but Class Politics (Eris 2023), co-author with Walter Benn Michaels, and Black Studies, Cultural Politics, and the Evasion of Inequality (Routledge 2025), co-author with Kenneth W. Warren.
He has been a columnist in The Progressive, The Village Voice, The New Republic, and The Nation, and has written frequently in Dissent, New Labor Forum, nonsite.org, of which he is an editorial board member, and many other academic and popular journals and magazines. He served on the board of Public Citizen, Inc. and was a member of the Interim National Council of the Labor Party, and the executive committee of the American Association of University Professors, and he is currently on the boards of Food and Water Action and the Debs-Jones-Douglass Institute (DJDI) and is a regular on DJDI’s Class Matters podcast — https://classmatterspodcast.org