The Cost of Race Reductionism: Review of Toward Freedom by Touré F. Reed

Touré Reed published Toward Freedom on February 25, 2020, just before the tumultuous onslaught of events that revealed the deepest extents of American inequality. In his work, Reed argues that true justice and equality for African Americans is impeded by the practice of race reductionism and the protection of neoliberal enterprise. He asserts that the failure to rectify the injustices at the core of America’s foundation results from ignoring the inextricable link between race and class and the inability to condemn capitalism’s role as the root cause of racial injustice