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.

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Details

Additional Authors

Cobb, Jelani

Description

xxiv, 310 p.; 24 cm.

Subjects

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

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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Baker, Magnificent Negro Artist (Daily Worker, March 14, 1951; Rebellion or Revolution, 1968) -- A Negro Looks at Cuba (Unpublished, 1960) -- Race and Bohemianism in Greenwich Village (The Crisis, January 1960) -- James Baldwin, the Theater and His Critics (Unpublished, 1963) -- Correspondence -- Letter to the Amsterdam News (April 19, 1956) -- Open Letter to Harry Belafonte (Unpublished, November, 1956) -- From The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967) -- Individualism and the "Open Society" -- Cultural Leadership and Cultural Democracy --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and the Negro -- Post-Black Power Writings -- The Racial Origins of American Theater: A Response to Robert Brustein (Unpublished) -- The New Negro History of John Hope Franklin--Promise and Progress (Unpublished) -- Amilcar Cabral and the Afro-American Reality (Black World, October 1975) -- The Pan-African Constituency and the Black Electorate (Black World, January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).

ISBN

• 0312293976
• 0312293968 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2001048212

OCLC

• 47797594
• SCSB-12887059

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library