The post-Civil Rights era academy, that is.

Tried Reed's prose a few times, on the advice of non-historian friends, and given it up as not worth the effort. What I got out of it looks impossible to credit from a 19th century perspective, but he's not really in my field, not writing about my century, and it's possible I'm overly influenced by my friends' version of his ideas.

I've poked around his CV a little but really don't even know where to look to see if he's taken seriously by late 20th century people. None of his publications are familiar to me and I'm not aware enough of contemporary literature to situate him as anything but hostile to critical race theory.