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Paul Louis Street (born May 23, 1958) is an American author, historian and political commentator. He is a member of the International Organization for a Participatory Society and holds a doctorate in U.S. History from Binghamton University.

Career
Between 2000 and 2005, Street worked as a Research Director and Vice President for Research and Planning at the Chicago Urban League.

In 2008, Street's book Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics was published. It looked at Barack Obama's political and personal history, candidacy, campaign strategy, and political philosophy and related to modern American political culture.

Political views
Street is a Marxist whose leading influences beyond Marx include Gerrard Winstanley, Edward Palmer Thompson, Eric Hobsbawm, Rosa Luxemburg, Noam Chomsky, and John Pilger.

Street is a critic of pseudo-populism, which is usually engineered with the help of mass media, especially as it perpetuates corporatism and imperialism.

Little Village magazine recorded that Street said, "We either transcend the corporate-managed profits system or we descend ever further into barbarism, totalitarianism, and ecological ruin over the long haul."

Street cites Martin Luther King's philosophy against the "triple evils" of "racism, economic exploitation (capitalism), and militarism–imperialism" as a primary influence on his life and works.

Writing
Street has written for a number of periodicals including AlterNet, Chicago Tribune, CounterPunch,Dissent, Journal of Social History, In These Times, Monthly Review, TeleSUR, and Z Magazine.

Street's report of 2005, Still Separate ..., found that Chicago had the fifth most racially segregated residential metropolitan area in the United States.

Writing for the New Statesman in 2009, John Pilger said Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics was "...perhaps the only book that tells the truth about the 44th president of the United States."

In 2013, the New Stateman said Street, despite reservations, felt Obama's presidential campaign had engaged voters.

Reports

 * The Vicious Circle: Race, Prison, Jobs and Community in Chicago, Illinois and the Nation (Chicago Urban League, 2002)
 * Still Separate, Unequal, Race: Place and Policy in Chicago (Chicago Urban League, 2005)

Books

 * Empire and Inequality: America and the World since 9/11 (Boulder: Paradigm 2004) (ISBN 978-1-59451-059-5)
 * Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid in the Post–Civil Rights Era (New York: Routledge 2005) (ISBN 978-0-415-95116-6)
 * Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis: A Living Black Chicago History (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007) (ISBN 978-0-7425-4081-1)
 * Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics (Boulder: Paradigm, 2008) (ISBN 978-1-59451-631-3)
 * The Empire's New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power (Boulder: Paradigm, August 2010) (ISBN 978-1-59451-845-4)
 * They Rule: The 1% v. Democracy (Boulder: Paradigm, September 2014) (ISBN 978-1-61205-327-1)
 * Crashing the Tea Party: Mass Media and the Campaign to Remake American Politics (co-author with Anthony DiMaggio) (Boulder: Paradigm, 2011) (ISBN 978-1-59451-945-1)