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Harold Cruse, the Loneliest Black Radical Intellectual

JACOBIN · Alan Wald ·

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Harold Cruse’s Crisis of the Negro Intellectual became an instant classic and helped found the field of African American studies. His writing brimmed with erudition and insight, but his fragile ego and personal grudges left him isolated.

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