On the Corner : African American Intellectuals and the Urban Crisis.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (385 pages)
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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Clark, Kenneth Bancroft,-1914-2005-Political and social views. Baraka, Amiri,-1934-2014-Political and social views. Bearden, Romare,-1911-1988-Political and social views. African American intellectuals-History-20th century. African American intellectuals-Biography. African Americans-Social conditions-1964-1975. Inner cities-United States-History-20th century. Urban policy-United States-History-20th century. Harlem (New York, N.Y.)-Social conditions-20th century. New York (N.Y.)-Social conditions-20th century.