The Essential Harold Cruse: A Reader
by Jelani Cobb (Editor), Harold Cruse
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In 1967, as the movement for civil rights was turning into a bitter, often violent battle for black power, Harold Cruse's The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual burst onto the scene. It was a lacerating attack on integration, and set the agenda for black cultural, social, and political autonomy. A classic of African American social thought, the book and its author went on to influence generations of activists, artists, and scholars. Cruse's intelligence, independence, and breadth of vision show more virtually defined what it meant to be a black intellectual in modern America. Here is a powerful introduction to Cruse's wide body of work. This first anthology of Cruse's writing includes published material such as excerpts from Crisis , as well as unpublished essays, speeches, and correspondence. The Essential Harold Cruse is certain to become standard reading for anyone interested in race in American society. show lessTags
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William Jelani Cobb is Assistant Professor of History at Spelman College.
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- The Essential Harold Cruse: A Reader
- Original publication date
- 2002
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- Nonfiction, Anthropology, Politics and Government, History
- DDC/MDS
- 305.896 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Ethnic and national groups Other ethnic and national groups Africans and people of African descent; Blacks of African origin
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- E185.6 .C964 — History of the United States United States Elements in the population Afro-Americans Status and development since emancipation
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