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050 00 $aE185.6$b.C96 2005
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100 1 $aCruse, Harold.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84019137
245 14 $aThe crisis of the Negro intellectual :$ba historical analysis of the failure of Black leadership /$cHarold Cruse ; introduction by Stanley Crouch.
260 $aNew York :$bNew York Review Books,$c2005.
300 $axiv, 594 pages ;$c21 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aNew York Review Books classics
500 $aOriginally published: New York : Morrow, 1967.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 567-568) and index.
505 00 $tIndividualism and the "open society" --$tHarlem background - the rise of economic nationalism and origins of cultural revolution --$tMass media and cultural democracy --$tCultural leadership and cultural democracy --$t1920's-1930's - West Indian influence --$tJews and Negroes in the Communist Party --$tThe National Negro Congress --$tRichard Wright --$tArtists for Freedom Inc. - dialogue off-key --$tOrigins of the dialogue --$tFreedom newspaper --$tFrom Freedom to Freedomways --$tRichard B. Moore --$tLorraine Hansberry --$tPaul Robeson --$tFreedomways, summer 1963 : black economy - self-made myth --$tFreedomways, summer 1963 : capitalism revisited --$tFreedomways, summer 1963 : nationalism made respectable --$tThe intellectuals and force and violence --$tFrom Monroe to Watts --$tFrom southern activism to northern impasse --$tIdeology in black : African, Afro-American, Afro-West Indian and the nationalist mood --$tRole of the Negro intellectual - survey of the dialogue deferred --$tNegroes and Jews - the two nationalisms and the bloc(ked) plurality --$tNegro writers' conferences - the dialogue distorted --$tIntellectuals and the theater of the 1960's - as medium and dialogue --$tThe Harlem Black Arts Theater - new dialogue with the lost black generation --$tPostscript on black power - the dialogue between shadow and substance.
520 1 $a"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 cliches of the melting pot in favor of a vision of Americanness as an arena of necessary and vital contention, an open and ongoing struggle."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91004344
650 0 $aAfrican American intellectuals.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91004343
830 0 $aNew York Review Books classics.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00036129
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip055/2004029508.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0646/2004029508-d.html
852 00 $bmil$hE185.6$i.C96 2005