This was a heck of a book, no doubt. Essential reading on race and intellectual history.
mbs
A New Yorker reviewer was not far off when he wrote that "The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual," published in 1967, "will infuriate almost everyone." Viewed by some as a brilliant rant and others as engaging but flawed, the book established the author as a leading personality among black thinkers of the day.
William Jelani Cobb, an assistant history professor at Spelman College who edited "The Essential Harold Cruse," wrote that next to "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" and Frantz Fanon's "The Wretched of the Earth," Mr. Cruse's book was "required reading among Black Powerites."