Research Catalog

Title

The essential Harold Cruse : a reader / edited by William Jelani Cobb ; foreword by Stanley Crouch.

Author

Cruse, Harold.

Publication

New York : Palgrave, 2002.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Details

Additional Authors

Cobb, Jelani.

Description

xxiv, 310 pages; 25 cm

Alternative Title

Harold Cruse

Subjects

• African Americans > Civil rights
• African Americans > Intellectual life
• United States > Race relations
• History
• African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century
• African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century
• African Americans > Politics and government > 20th century
• African American leadership
• 1900-1999
• Race relations

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Blues for Brother Cruse / Stanley Crouch -- Early Writing -- Essays -- Salute to Josephine Baker, Magnificent Negro Artist (Daily Worker, March 14, 1951; Rebellion or Revolution, 1968) -- A Negro Looks at Cuba (Unpublished, 1960) -- Race and Bohemianism in Greenwich Village (The Crisis, January 1960) -- James Baldwin, the Theater and His Critics (Unpublished, 1963) -- Correspondence -- Letter to the Amsterdam News (April 19, 1956) -- Open Letter to Harry Belafonte (Unpublished, November, 1956) -- From The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967) -- Individualism and the "Open Society" -- Cultural Leadership and Cultural Democracy -- Negroes and Jews--The Two Nationalisms and the Bloc(ked) Plurality -- Black Power Era -- On Explaining 20th Century Negro History (Negro Digest, July 1967) -- The Fire This Time?: Eldridge Cleaver: Post-Prison Speeches and Writings (New York Review of Books, May 8, 1969) -- The Integrationist Ethic as a Basis for Scholarly Endeavors (Speech given to Yale University Black Student Alliance, 1969) -- The Little Rock National Black Political Convention (Black World, October 1974) -- from Rebellion or Revolution? (1968) -- Marxism and the Negro -- Post-Black Power Writings -- The Racial Origins of American Theater: A Response to Robert Brustein (Unpublished) -- The New Negro History of John Hope Franklin--Promise and Progress (Unpublished) -- Amilcar Cabral and the Afro-American Reality (Black World, October 1975) -- The Pan-African Constituency and the Black Electorate (Black World, January 1975).

Call Number

Sc E 02-518

ISBN

• 0312293976
• 9780312293970
• 0312293968
• 9780312293963

LCCN

2001048212

OCLC

47797594

Author

Cruse, Harold.

Title

The essential Harold Cruse : a reader / edited by William Jelani Cobb ; foreword by Stanley Crouch.

Imprint

New York : Palgrave, 2002.

Edition

1st ed.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Connect to:

Table of contents

Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Indexed Term

African Americans Intellectual life 20th century

African Americans Civil rights History 20th century

African Americans Politics and government 20th century

African American leadership

United States Race relations

Added Author

Cobb, Jelani.

Research Call Number

Sc E 02-518

JFE 02-7613