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On the Corner : African American Intellectuals and the Urban Crisis.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (385 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674726109
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: On the CornerDDC classification:
  • 305.896/073
LOC classification:
  • E185
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Ghettos of the Mind, Kenneth B. Clark and the Psychology of the Urban Crisis -- The Cry of the Ghetto -- Tangle of Pathology -- To Challenge the Powers That Be -- A Unifying Theory -- 2. Be Even Blacker: Amiri Baraka's Names and Places -- A Sense of the Prodigal -- Speaking to Black People -- Code of Morality -- Lift Up Yr Self! -- I Will Create a City! -- 3. Harlem without Walls, Romare Bearden's Realism -- The Negro Artist's Dilemma -- To Paint the Life of My People as I Know It -- Projections -- To See How Life Can Triumph -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: In July 1964 when a Harlem riot shifted attention to the crisis in northern cities, African American intellectuals were thrust into the spotlight as interpreters of black urban life to white America. On the Corner revisits the moment when black urban life became, for these intellectuals, "the topic that is reserved for blacks.".
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Ghettos of the Mind, Kenneth B. Clark and the Psychology of the Urban Crisis -- The Cry of the Ghetto -- Tangle of Pathology -- To Challenge the Powers That Be -- A Unifying Theory -- 2. Be Even Blacker: Amiri Baraka's Names and Places -- A Sense of the Prodigal -- Speaking to Black People -- Code of Morality -- Lift Up Yr Self! -- I Will Create a City! -- 3. Harlem without Walls, Romare Bearden's Realism -- The Negro Artist's Dilemma -- To Paint the Life of My People as I Know It -- Projections -- To See How Life Can Triumph -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

In July 1964 when a Harlem riot shifted attention to the crisis in northern cities, African American intellectuals were thrust into the spotlight as interpreters of black urban life to white America. On the Corner revisits the moment when black urban life became, for these intellectuals, "the topic that is reserved for blacks.".

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