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Not a Classic: The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual

*This post is part of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967).

“Crouching, cringing, shrinking from both physical and intellectual light,” Chandler Owen wrote, “the Klan is a true anthropoid germ which

Black students’ educational needs are central to Black political and social activism. It is no secret that Black activism in

This fall I am teaching African American History Since 1863, starting with the event of Emancipation as a legal-juridical happening

Pictured in profile on the cover The Narrative (2016), hip hop artist Sho Baraka calls upon listeners to draw connections between