The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual Reconsidered: A Retrospective

ISBN-13: 9781138990487 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 336 str.

Jerry G. Watts;?Abar;?Abar

Opis

A collection of essays looking back at the influence of The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, first published 35 years ago.

Recenzje

"The contributors to Jerry Watt's volume offer a wide variety of perspectives on the book Cruse is best known for.... The contributors' own reactions to Cruse's work demonstrates Cruse's persisting capacity to infuriate as well as to stimulate... [they] have provided a valuable beginning to treatments of Cruse that go beyond easy praise or blame." --The Journal of American History

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Introduction OVERVIEW OF THE CRUSE PROJECT 1. More than Just a Politician: Notes on the Life and Times of Harold CruseVan Gosse 2. Anatomy of Black Intellectuals and Nationalism, Martin Kilson 3. Negro Exceptionalism: The Antinomies of Harold Cruse, Nikhil Pal Singh CRUSE AS CULTURAL CRITIC 4. Harold Cruse's Worst Nightmare: Rethinking Porgy and Bess, Jeffrey Melnick 5. The Afro-American Musician as Intellectual, James C. Hall BLACKS,JEWS and COMMUNISTS 6. Harold Cruse on Blacks and Jews, Cheryl Greenberg 7. Narrating Nationalisms: Black Marxism and Jewish Communists Through the Eyes of Harold Cruse, Alan Wald 8. The Crisis of Blacks and Communism, Earl Ofari Hutchinson CRUSE AS COLD WARRIOR 9. The Cold War Seduction of Harold Cruse, Penny M. Von Eschen 10. The Crisis of Historical Memory: Harold Cruse, Julian Mayfield and African-American Expatriates in Nkrumah's Ghana, 1957-1966, Kevin Gaines THE PROBLEMATIC STATUS OF FEMALE INTELLECTUALS 11. Religious Intellectuals, Social Change and Women's Bodies, Traci C. West 12. Where Are the Black Female Intellectuals?, Beverly Guy-Sheftall CRUSE AND BLACK NATIONALISM 13. Harold Cruse and Afrocentric Theory, Molefi Asante 14. Harold Cruse, Black Nationalism and the Black Power Movement, Peniel E. Joseph CRUSE AS POLITICAL THINKER 15. Home to Harlem: Black American Identity and Cruse's Quest for Community, Fred Montas, Jr. 16. Cruse's Dismissal of Afro-American Liberalism, Jerry G. Watts Conclusion. Thirteen Theses Nailed to the Door of Cruse

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Jerry G. Watts