Essential Harold Cruse: A Reader - Softcover

Cobb, Jelani William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312293968 ISBN 13: 9780312293963

Publisher: Griffin, 2002

Synopsis

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 virtually defined what it meant to be a black intellectual in modern America. In this first anthology of Cruse's writing, William Jelani Cobb provides a powerful introduction to Cruse's wide body of work, including published material such as excerpts from Crisis, as well as unpublished essays, speeches, and correspondence.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.

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About the Author

William Jelani Cobb, Ph.D., a History Professor at Rutgers University, is former Associate Professor of History at Spelman College in Atlanta, and is a contributing writer for Essence magazine. His essays and reviews have appeared in The Washington Post, The Progressive, Alternet.org, and other publications. He has been a featured commentator on National Public Radio, and is the author of To The Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic and The Devil & Dave Chappelle and Other Essays.

Edition details

• Publisher: Griffin
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312293968
• ISBN 13: 9780312293963
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336