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The crisis of the Negro intellectual. / By Harold Cruse.
LIBRA E185.82 .C74
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LIBRA - Rare E185.82 C74 1967 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cruse, Harold.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965.
- Hansberry, Lorraine.
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.
- Wright, Richard.
- Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976.
- Robeson, Paul.
- Moore, Richard B. (Richard Benjamin).
- Moore, Richard B.
- African Americans--Intellectual life.
- African Americans.
- African American intellectuals.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 6 unnumbered pages, 594 pages, 8 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1967.
- Contents:
- I. 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
- II. 1920's-1930's-West Indian Influence; Jews and Negroes in the Communist Party; The National Negro Congress; Richard Wright
- III. Artists for Freedom Inc.-Dialogue Off-key; Origins of the Dialogue; Freedom Newspaper; From Freedom to Freedomways; Richard B. Moore; Lorraine Hansberry; Paul Robeson
- IV. Freedomways, Summer 1963: Black Economy-Self-Made Myth; Freedomways, Summer 1963: Capitalism Revisited; Freedomways, Summer 1963: Nationalism Made Respectable
- V. The Intellectuals and Force and Violence; From Monroe to Watts; From Southern Activism to Northern Impasse; Ideology in Blalck: African, Afro-American, Afro-West Indian and the Nationalist Mood
- VI. Role of the Negro Intellectual-Survey of the Dialogue Deferred; Negroes and Jews-The Two Nationalisms and the Block(ed) Plurality; Negro Writers' Conferences-The Dialogue Distorted; Intellectuals and the Theater of the 1920's-As Medium and Dialogue; The Harlem Black Arts Theater-New Dialogue with the Lost Black Generation; Postscript on Black Power-The Dialogue Between Shadow and Substance.
- Notes:
- "Jacket by Roy Schlemne."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 567-568) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.
- Banks Collection copy is "Second Printing, August 1968".
- OCLC:
- 225483
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