{"product_id":"the-crisis-of-the-negro-intellectual-a-historical-analysis-of-the-failure-of-black-leadership-9781590171356","title":"The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1967, as the early triumphs of the Civil Rights movement yielded to increasing frustration and violence, \u003ci\u003eThe Crisis of the Negro Intellectual \u003c\/i\u003eelectrified a generation of activists and intellectuals. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe product of a lifetime of struggle and reflection, Cruse's book is a singular amalgam of cultural history, passionate disputation, and deeply considered analysis of the relationship between American blacks and American society. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Reviewing black intellectual life from the Harlem Renaissance through the 1960s, Cruse discusses the legacy (and offers memorably acid-edged portraits) of figures such as Paul Robeson, Lorraine Hansberry, and James Baldwin, arguing that their work was marked by a failure to understand the specifically American character of racism in the United States. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis supplies the background to Cruse's controversial critique of both integrationism and black nationalism and to his claim that black Americans will only assume a just place within American life when they develop their own distinctive centers of cultural and economic influence. For Cruse's most important accomplishment may well be his rejection of the clich s of the melting pot in favor of a vision of Americanness as an arena of necessary and vital contention, an open and ongoing struggle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cruse, Harold\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590171356\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 594\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.08h x 5.30w x 1.30d","brand":"Harold Cruse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32749459931211,"sku":"9781590171356","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_41218145-d826-4de4-930e-3073cf4d0dae.jpg?v=1597789876","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/the-crisis-of-the-negro-intellectual-a-historical-analysis-of-the-failure-of-black-leadership-9781590171356","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}