Rebellion or Revolution?

by Harold Cruse, Cedric G. Johnson (Foreword)

Originally published: New York: Morrow, 1968.

Genres: Race, Theory, Politics

280 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1968

About the author

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 (1967) is his best-known book.

Reviews

[D Carter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Harold Cruse does a great job at offering new perspectives and linking black scholars ideas together and showing where they differ. Cruse often has very strong language and even stronger opinions, and sometimes his essays/articles read as from someone who is constantly trying to prove his ideas are radical (and his radical ideas are that most prominent black cultural leaders have not been/are not radical). But I really enjoyed his discussion of the Left and Marxist attempts at radicalizing negroes. I only wish Harold Cruse had followed through and discussed actual praxis rather than stop at a conceptual theory of developing a new theory. All in all, a good read for the political mind to challenge modern views, especially regarding nationalism, segregation, and Black Power.

[Dennis Greene · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting analytical essays on the world of African American socio-politics.