The Decline of Antiracism and the Future of Progressive Politics: Building Race and Class Alliances for a Better Future

Examining the vicissitudes of contemporary antiracism and its problematic contributions to recent progressive politics, The Decline of Antiracism and the Future of Progressive Politics argues that contemporary antiracism has ignored the role of class and reduced social justice to a matter of symbolism and right-thinking.

John Torpey is Presidential Professor of Sociology and History and Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of a number of books, including Intellectuals, Socialism, and Dissent (1995), Old Europe, New Europe, Core Europe (2005), and The Three Axial Ages (2017). He is on the editorial board of Theory and Social Inquiry and edits a series for Temple University Press titled ＂Politics, History, and Social Change.＂ In 2016-2017, he was president of the Eastern Sociological Society.