Crisis of the Negro Intellectual A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership

Name: Crisis of the Negro Intellectual A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership
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ISBN: 9781590171356

ISBN-10: 1590171357

ISBN-13: 9781590171356

Edition: 2005

Authors: Harold Cruse, Stanley Crouch

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First published in 1967 in the wake of race riots and integration fears, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual is an indispensable history and urgent critique of the black left from the Harlem Renaissance through the black arts movement. Memorably portraying prominent figures such as Paul Robeson, Lorraine Hansberry, and James Baldwin, Harold Cruse tells of African American artists yoked to rigid doctrines that doom them to political and artistic failure. He then sweeps out from Harlem cultural institutions to broader issues - mass media and communism, black-Jewish relations, the revolutionary use of force - while searching out an authentic black culture based in political self-consciousness…

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List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Publication date: 6/30/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 616
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.606
Language: English

Stanley Crouch is a contributing editor toThe New Republic,a Sunday columnist for the New YorkDaily News,and a frequent panelist onThe Charlie Rose Show.He is the author ofThe All-American Skin Game(which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award) andNotes of a Hanging Judge.For years a jazz critic and staff writer for theVillage Voice,he is Artistic Consultant to Jazz at Lincoln Center. He lives in New York City. From the Hardcover edition.



Individualism and the "open society"


Harlem background - the rise of economic nationalism and origins of cultural revolution


Mass media and cultural democracy


Cultural leadership and cultural democracy


1920's-1930's - West Indian influence


Jews and Negroes in the Communist Party


The National Negro Congress


Richard Wright


Artists for Freedom Inc. - dialogue off-key


Origins of the dialogue


Freedom newspaper


From Freedom to Freedomways


Richard B. Moore


Lorraine Hansberry


Paul Robeson


Freedomways, summer 1963 : black economy - self-made myth


Freedomways, summer 1963 : capitalism revisited


Freedomways, summer 1963 : nationalism made respectable


The intellectuals and force and violence


From Monroe to Watts


From southern activism to northern impasse


Ideology in black : African, Afro-American, Afro-West Indian and the nationalist mood


Role of the Negro intellectual - survey of the dialogue deferred


Negroes and Jews - the two nationalisms and the bloc(ked) plurality


Negro writers' conferences - the dialogue distorted


Intellectuals and the theater of the 1960's - as medium and dialogue


The Harlem Black Arts Theater - new dialogue with the lost black generation