Class/Wealth Gap

How do racial attitudes shape policy preferences in the era of Black Lives Matter and increasingly liberal views on racial issues? A large body of research finds that highlighting the benefits of progressive policies for racial minorities undermines support for those policies. However, Democratic...

Touré F. Reed’s Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism presents a forceful critique of race reductionism and makes a persuasive case for the return to a redistributive, public goods approach to governance. Reed brilliantly shows how black political actors have used race reductionism to...

Once it was effectively decoupled from political-economic dynamics, “racism” became increasingly amorphous as a charge or diagnosis—a blur of attitudes, utterances, individual actions, and patterned disparities, an autonomous force that acts outside of historically specific social relations. Today...

I’m concerned that the growing popularity of [a race-reductionist] framing will make it that much easier for politicians to exploit the left’s good faith concern about identity-based disparities in order to disperse enthusiasm for policies that seek to transform the economic status quo.