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The path to more knowledge for the Negro intellectual is through cultural nationalism—an ideology that has made Jewish intellectuals into a social force to be reckoned with in America.

Harold Cruse

Despite the false promises of the civil rights cycle of the Sixties and Seventies, American blacks still represent the most crucial minority group, the most strategically positioned to impact on the institutional structures of the total society. What is lacking is the quality of black leadership capable of harnessing black potential.

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The Negro intellectual must not be allowed to forget that the integrated intellectual world is not representative of ethnic group aspirations.

Harold Cruse

Harlem is the black world's key community for historical, political, economic, cultural and/or ethnic reasons.

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Integration is... leading to cultural negation.

Harold Cruse

Harold Cruse

Harold Cruse

Born: 1916

Died: 2005 (aged 89)

Bio: Harold Wright Cruse was an American academic who was an outspoken social critic and teacher of African American studies at the University of Michigan until the mid-1980s. The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual is his best-known book.

Known for:

The crisis of the Negro intellectual (1967)
The essential Harold Cruse (2002)
Rebellion Or Revolution? (1968)
Plural but Equal (1987)

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