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On the Corner: African American Intellectuals and the Urban Crisis
Daniel Matlin
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Hardback. 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. This book revisits the moment when black urban life became, for these intellectuals, "the topic that is reserved for blacks." Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSG; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 712.
In July 1964, after a decade of intense media focus on civil rights protest in the Jim Crow South, a riot in Harlem abruptly shifted attention to the urban crisis embroiling America's northern cities. On the Corner revisits the volatile moment when African American intellectuals were thrust into the spotlight as indigenous interpreters of black urban life to white America, and examines how three figures--Kenneth B. Clark, Amiri Baraka, and Romare Bearden--wrestled with the opportunities and dilemmas their heightened public statures entailed. Daniel Matlin locates in the 1960s a new dynamic that has continued to shape African American intellectual practice ... Read more
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
352
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
712g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674725287
SKU
V9780674725287
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About Daniel Matlin
Daniel Matlin is Lecturer in the History of the United States of America since 1865 at King’s College London.
Reviews for On the Corner: African American Intellectuals and the Urban Crisis
Daniel Matlin has written a fascinating account of how the riots of the late 1960s propelled African American intellectuals into the public eye. Called to speak as 'indigenous interpreters,' Romare Bearden, Kenneth Clark, and Amiri Baraka forged new political and artistic visions while navigating the shifting grounds of race and racism in American life.
Martha Biondi, author of The ... Read more On the Corner offers a fresh and bold interpretation of black intellectual life in the 1960s. By taking familiar individuals
Kenneth Clark, Amiri Baraka, and Romare Bearden
and casting them in new light, Matlin advances our understanding of how deeply intertwined conversations about race, identity, authenticity, the establishment, the grassroots, uplift, and masculinity happen to be.
Jonathan Scott Holloway, author of Confronting the Veil: Abram Harris Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919-1941 Drawing fresh and brilliant insight from the careers of Kenneth Clark, Amiri Baraka, and Romare Bearden, Matlin unpacks the tangled debates over poverty and criminality from a half-century ago with the keenness of a sharp-eyed observer listening on the corner in real time. His observations about the imaginative power of the arts to capture the full dimensions of black humanity
its joy and pain, sorrow and celebration
show just how important the humanities are in illuminating some of our most enduring social challenges.
Khalil Gibran Muhammad, author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America In this fascinating account of how black intellectuals and artists found themselves acting as indigenous interpreters of black life and culture to white America, Matlin examines the roles of Kenneth Clark, Amiri Baraka, and Romare Bearden from this perspective.
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Martha Biondi, author of The ... Read more On the Corner offers a fresh and bold interpretation of black intellectual life in the 1960s. By taking familiar individuals
Kenneth Clark, Amiri Baraka, and Romare Bearden
and casting them in new light, Matlin advances our understanding of how deeply intertwined conversations about race, identity, authenticity, the establishment, the grassroots, uplift, and masculinity happen to be.
Jonathan Scott Holloway, author of Confronting the Veil: Abram Harris Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919-1941 Drawing fresh and brilliant insight from the careers of Kenneth Clark, Amiri Baraka, and Romare Bearden, Matlin unpacks the tangled debates over poverty and criminality from a half-century ago with the keenness of a sharp-eyed observer listening on the corner in real time. His observations about the imaginative power of the arts to capture the full dimensions of black humanity
its joy and pain, sorrow and celebration
show just how important the humanities are in illuminating some of our most enduring social challenges.
Khalil Gibran Muhammad, author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America In this fascinating account of how black intellectuals and artists found themselves acting as indigenous interpreters of black life and culture to white America, Matlin examines the roles of Kenneth Clark, Amiri Baraka, and Romare Bearden from this perspective.
W. Glasker
Choice
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