Corey's making me write the descriptions now I guess. I use the fact that Corey is sort of not-totally-white as a shield to defend myself from charges of "class reductionism" as I half-assedly summarize my cool vicarious grandpa Adolph Reed and some other people in a probably futile effort to take the lens off race and refocus it on class in the context of ongoing protests against police brutality

citations:https://catalyst-journal.com/vol3/no3/the-economic-origins-of-mass-incarcerationhttps://newrepublic.com/article/154996/myth-class-reductionismhttps://nonsite.org/editorial/what-materialist-black-political-history-actually-looks-likehttps://www.amazon.com/Racecraft-Soul-Inequality-American-Life/dp/1781683131https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Career-Jim-Crow/dp/0195146905

Oh and this one too even though we didn't bring it up https://nonsite.org/editorial/how-racial-disparity-does-not-help-make-sense-of-patterns-of-police-violence