Author: Harold Cruse
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9781590171356
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Published in 1967, as the early triumphs of the Civil Rights movement yielded to increasing frustration and violence, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual electrified a generation of activists and intellectuals. The product of a lifetime of struggle and reflection, Cruse's book is a singular amalgam of cultural history, passionate disputation, and deeply considered analysis of the relationship between American blacks and American society. Reviewing black intellectual life from the Harlem Renaissance through the 1960s, Cruse discusses the legacy (and offers memorably acid-edged portraits) of figures such as Paul Robeson, Lorraine Hansberry, and James Baldwin, arguing that their work was marked by a failure to understand the specifically American character of racism in the United States. This supplies the background to Cruse's controversial critique of both integrationism and black nationalism and to his claim that black Americans will only assume a just place within American life when they develop their own distinctive centers of cultural and economic influence. For Cruse's most important accomplishment may well be his rejection of the clichés of the melting pot in favor of a vision of Americanness as an arena of necessary and vital contention, an open and ongoing struggle.
The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual
Author: Harold Cruse
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9781590171356
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Published in 1967, as the early triumphs of the Civil Rights movement yielded to increasing frustration and violence, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual electrified a generation of activists and intellectuals. The product of a lifetime of struggle and reflection, Cruse's book is a singular amalgam of cultural history, passionate disputation, and deeply considered analysis of the relationship between American blacks and American society. Reviewing black intellectual life from the Harlem Renaissance through the 1960s, Cruse discusses the legacy (and offers memorably acid-edged portraits) of figures such as Paul Robeson, Lorraine Hansberry, and James Baldwin, arguing that their work was marked by a failure to understand the specifically American character of racism in the United States. This supplies the background to Cruse's controversial critique of both integrationism and black nationalism and to his claim that black Americans will only assume a just place within American life when they develop their own distinctive centers of cultural and economic influence. For Cruse's most important accomplishment may well be his rejection of the clichés of the melting pot in favor of a vision of Americanness as an arena of necessary and vital contention, an open and ongoing struggle.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9781590171356
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Published in 1967, as the early triumphs of the Civil Rights movement yielded to increasing frustration and violence, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual electrified a generation of activists and intellectuals. The product of a lifetime of struggle and reflection, Cruse's book is a singular amalgam of cultural history, passionate disputation, and deeply considered analysis of the relationship between American blacks and American society. Reviewing black intellectual life from the Harlem Renaissance through the 1960s, Cruse discusses the legacy (and offers memorably acid-edged portraits) of figures such as Paul Robeson, Lorraine Hansberry, and James Baldwin, arguing that their work was marked by a failure to understand the specifically American character of racism in the United States. This supplies the background to Cruse's controversial critique of both integrationism and black nationalism and to his claim that black Americans will only assume a just place within American life when they develop their own distinctive centers of cultural and economic influence. For Cruse's most important accomplishment may well be his rejection of the clichés of the melting pot in favor of a vision of Americanness as an arena of necessary and vital contention, an open and ongoing struggle.
Crisis of the Negro Intellectual Reconsidered
Author: Jerry G. Watts
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113596405X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Thirty-five years after its initial publication, Harold Cruse's "The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual," remains a foundational work in Afro-American Studies and American Cultural Studies. Published during a highly contentious moment in Afro-American political life, "The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual" was one of the very few texts that treated Afro-American intellectuals as intellectually significant. The essays contained in Harold Cruse's "The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual Reconsidered" are collectively a testimony to the continuing significance of this polemical call to arms for black intellectuals. Each scholar featured in this book has chosen to discuss specific arguments made by Cruse. While some have utilized Cruse's arguments to launch broader discussions of various issues pertaining to Afro-American intellectuals, and others have contributed discussions on intellectual issues completely ignored by Cruse, all hope to pay homage to a thinker worthy of continual reconsideration.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113596405X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Thirty-five years after its initial publication, Harold Cruse's "The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual," remains a foundational work in Afro-American Studies and American Cultural Studies. Published during a highly contentious moment in Afro-American political life, "The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual" was one of the very few texts that treated Afro-American intellectuals as intellectually significant. The essays contained in Harold Cruse's "The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual Reconsidered" are collectively a testimony to the continuing significance of this polemical call to arms for black intellectuals. Each scholar featured in this book has chosen to discuss specific arguments made by Cruse. While some have utilized Cruse's arguments to launch broader discussions of various issues pertaining to Afro-American intellectuals, and others have contributed discussions on intellectual issues completely ignored by Cruse, all hope to pay homage to a thinker worthy of continual reconsideration.
Harold Cruse's The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual Reconsidered
Author: Jerry Gafio Watts
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415915755
Category : African American intellectuals
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
A collection of essays looking back at the influence of The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, first published 35 years ago.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415915755
Category : African American intellectuals
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
A collection of essays looking back at the influence of The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, first published 35 years ago.
Crisis (mis)Management
Author: Daniel D Hardman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Crisis (mis)Management: The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual Revisited explores answers to persistent problems by pointing back to the realistic ideas and real-world solutions Harold Cruse expressed in his analytical work.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Crisis (mis)Management: The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual Revisited explores answers to persistent problems by pointing back to the realistic ideas and real-world solutions Harold Cruse expressed in his analytical work.
The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual Reconsidered
Author: Jerry G. Watts
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135964068
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
A collection of essays looking back at the influence of The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, first published 35 years ago.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135964068
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
A collection of essays looking back at the influence of The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, first published 35 years ago.
THE CRISIS OF THE NEGRO INTELLECTUAL. BY HAROLD CRUSE.
Author: Harold Cruse
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual
Author: Ernest Kaiser
Publisher:
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Category : Minorities
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Minorities
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual
Author: Harold Cruse
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blacks
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blacks
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Crisis of the Black Intellectual
Author: William D. Wright
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Detailing the evolution of black-intellectual discourse since the 1960s, this assessment points to a lack of ongoing discussion about the role of intellectuals--black or white--in our society and insists that the experience of black Americans is so complex it deserves the closest and most honest scrutiny possible from black writers and academics.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Detailing the evolution of black-intellectual discourse since the 1960s, this assessment points to a lack of ongoing discussion about the role of intellectuals--black or white--in our society and insists that the experience of black Americans is so complex it deserves the closest and most honest scrutiny possible from black writers and academics.
Black Intellectuals and Black Society
Author: Martin L. Kilson
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231560907
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
This book presents the trailblazing political scientist Martin L. Kilson’s essays on leading Black intellectuals of the twentieth century. Kilson examines the ideas and careers of several key thinkers, placing their intellectual odysseys in the context of the dynamics that shaped the Black intelligentsia more broadly. He argues that the trajectory of twentieth-century Black intellectuals was determined by the interplay between formal ideas and Black egalitarian struggle. Beginning with the tension between W. E. B. Du Bois’s civil rights activism and Booker T. Washington’s accommodationism, Kilson explores the formation and evolution of Black intellectuals and activists across generations. Chapters consider Horace Mann Bond’s career in higher education, political scientist John Aubrey Davis’s transition from civil rights activist to federal policy technocrat, Ralph Bunche’s writings on European colonial rule in Africa, Harold Cruse’s classic polemic The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, E. Franklin Frazier’s analysis of the Black bourgeoisie, Adelaide M. Cromwell’s studies of the challenges facing elite Black women, and Ishmael Reed and Cornel West’s advocacy as public intellectuals amid a conservative turn. Offering timely and engaging insights into the lives and work of pivotal Black intellectuals and activists, this book sheds new light on the abiding questions and debates in Black political thought.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231560907
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
This book presents the trailblazing political scientist Martin L. Kilson’s essays on leading Black intellectuals of the twentieth century. Kilson examines the ideas and careers of several key thinkers, placing their intellectual odysseys in the context of the dynamics that shaped the Black intelligentsia more broadly. He argues that the trajectory of twentieth-century Black intellectuals was determined by the interplay between formal ideas and Black egalitarian struggle. Beginning with the tension between W. E. B. Du Bois’s civil rights activism and Booker T. Washington’s accommodationism, Kilson explores the formation and evolution of Black intellectuals and activists across generations. Chapters consider Horace Mann Bond’s career in higher education, political scientist John Aubrey Davis’s transition from civil rights activist to federal policy technocrat, Ralph Bunche’s writings on European colonial rule in Africa, Harold Cruse’s classic polemic The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, E. Franklin Frazier’s analysis of the Black bourgeoisie, Adelaide M. Cromwell’s studies of the challenges facing elite Black women, and Ishmael Reed and Cornel West’s advocacy as public intellectuals amid a conservative turn. Offering timely and engaging insights into the lives and work of pivotal Black intellectuals and activists, this book sheds new light on the abiding questions and debates in Black political thought.