The classic and deeply prescient collection that explores the multifaceted nature of race class and identity in America from one of our most insightful and iconoclastic intellectualsHailed by Publishers Weekly for its forceful and amp8220bracing opinions on race and politicsamp8221 Class Notes is a collection of critic Adolph Reed Jr.s clearest thinking on matters of race class and other American dilemmas. With barbed wit Reed takes aim against the solipsistic individualistic approaches of identity politics and in favor of classbased political interpretation and action. Reed leaves no topic untouched from the myth that there exists a particular kind of amp8220Black AntiSemitismamp8221 to the grift perpetuated by commentators who claim to speak for groups solely based on their identity categories.amp10Adolph Reed Jr. remains one of our most controversial and necessary interpreters of American politics. These essays illustrate why Reed is amp8220the smartest person of any race class or gender writing on race class and genderamp8221 Katha Pollitt. Class Notes is a classic text that signposts a path for the Leftout of essentialist gridlock and into meaningful goaloriented mass politics.