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Adolph L. Reed, Jr. (born January 14, 1947) is a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in race and American 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 founding member of the U.S. Labor Party and a frequent contributor to ''The Progressive'' and ''The Nation''. ==Political views== After South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley announced that African American Republican Tim Scott would be named to the soon-to-be-open U.S. Senate seat in South Carolina, held by Jim DeMint〔Steinhauer, Jennifer and Jeff Zeleny. ("Tim Scott to Be Named for Empty South Carolina Senate Seat, Republicans Say." ) ''The New York Times'', December 17, 200 2.〕 on December 17, 2012, Reed, in an op-ed published in the December 18, 2012 edition of ''The New York Times'', stated, "It obscures the fact that modern black Republicans have been more tokens than signs of progress."〔Reed, Adolph L. (" The Puzzle of Black Republicans ." ) ''The New York Times'', December 18, 2012. Retrieved: 21 December 2012.〕 Reed's editorial has been criticized by conservatives who argue that Reed applies the term 'token' to any African American who holds conservative views and posited a correlation between Reed's conviction that GOP policies don’t reflect mainstream black politics to a belief that the tokenism charge does not apply when the African American politician is a member of the Democratic Party.〔Gordon, John Steele.("Racism at the Times." ) ''Commentary'', December 19, 2012.〕〔Husar, Shirley. (Tim Scott: 'Token,' 'Oreo,' or conservative black man? ) ''Washington Times'', December 22, 2012.〕 His political criticism, however, includes that of Democratic politicians of African American heritage, as well as specific criticism of Democratic president Barack Obama, both during his presidency,〔Reed, Adolph Jr. (" The long, slow surrender of American liberals ." ) ''Harper's Magazine'', March 2014.〕 and as early as when he was still a state senator in Illinois. In an article in the ''The Village Voice'' dated January 16, 1996, he said of Obama: In Chicago, for instance, we’ve gotten a foretaste of the new breed of foundation-hatched black communitarian voices; one of them, a smooth Harvard lawyer with impeccable do-good credentials and vacuous-to-repressive neoliberal politics, has won a state senate seat on a base mainly in the liberal foundation and development worlds. His fundamentally bootstrap line was softened by a patina of the rhetoric of authentic community, talk about meeting in kitchens, small-scale solutions to social problems, and the predictable elevation of process over program — the point where identity politics converges with old-fashioned middle-class reform in favoring form over substance. I suspect that his ilk is the wave of the future in U.S. black politics, as in Haiti and wherever else the International Monetary Fund has sway. So far the black activist response hasn’t been up to the challenge. We have to do better.〔Reed, Adolph Jr. “The Curse of Community,” Village Voice, January 16, 1996〕 This was reprinted in Class Notes: Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene (New Press, 2000).〔Reed, Adolph Jr., ''Class Notes: Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene'' (New Press, 2000 (ISBN 978-1-56584-675-3))〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Adolph L. Reed, Jr.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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