The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: From Its Origins to the Present (Used Good)
Author: Harold Cruse
Publisher: Morrow: 1967
Format: Paperback
Condition: Used Good
SKU: 688-25224-9
Description
"Twenty-five years after its initial publication, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual must by now be considered a classic text in Afro-American cultural studies, for it remains one of the most provocative and suggestive treatments of the political behavior and beliefs of twentieth-century Afro-American intellectuals." Jerry Gafio Watts, Heroism and the Black Intellectual
About the Author
Harold Cruse (1916-2005) was born in Petersburg, Virginia, the son of a railway porter. He was raised from a young age in New York City, where he attended high school, after which he served with the Army in Europe during World War II. Cruse attended the City College of New York, although he did not graduate, and was a member of the Communist Party for several years. He also wrote a number of plays and, in the 1960s, was co-founder with LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) of the Black Arts Theater and School in Harlem. After publishing The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual in 1967, Cruse was invited to lecture at the University of Michigan, where he taught in the African-American studies program until his retirement as professor emeritus in the mid-1980s. Harold Cruse was also the author of Rebellion or Revolution?, Plural But Equal: A Critical Study of Blacks and Minorities and America’s Plural Society, and The Essential Harold Cruse: A Reader.