In a series of critical essays published during the eighties, Adolph Reed, Jr. examined the origins and political contradictions of the post civil rights black urban regime. This article revisits Reed’s formative analyses and how well these writings captured the concurrent historical processes of black political incorporation and urban neoliberalization. Reed counters the commonplace tendency to view the black population as a singular constituency with deeply shared interests, and instead, renders a more insightful portrait of black political life and its internal class dynamics. His work continues to provide a useful approach for understanding the machinations of black New Democrats, who remain central to the advancement of corporate-centered economic development strategies and pro-market initiatives like school privatization, which exacerbate urban inequality.
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