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 ampamp8220bracing opinions on race and politicsampamp8221 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 ampamp8220Black AntiSemitismampamp8221 to the grift perpetuated by commentators who claim to speak for groups solely based on their identity categories.ampamp10Adolph Reed Jr.