TY - BOOK AU - Matlin,Daniel TI - On the Corner: African American Intellectuals and the Urban Crisis SN - 9780674725287 AV - E185.615 .M333 2013eb U1 - 305.896/073 23 PY - 2013///] CY - Cambridge, MA : PB - Harvard University Press, KW - African American intellectuals KW - Biography KW - History KW - 20th century KW - African Americans KW - Social conditions KW - 1964-1975 KW - Inner cities KW - United States KW - Urban policy KW - Schwarze KW - gnd KW - Intellektueller KW - Sozialer Wandel KW - Stadt KW - HISTORY / United States / 20th Century KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. Ghettos of the Mind --; Chapter 2. Be Even Blacker --; Chapter 3. Harlem without Walls --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 when black urban communities became the chief objects of black intellectuals' perceived social obligations. Daniel Matlin explores how the psychologist Kenneth B. Clark, the literary author and activist Amiri Baraka, and the visual artist Romare Bearden each wrestled with the opportunities and dilemmas of their heightened public stature. Amid an often fractious interdisciplinary debate, black intellectuals furnished sharply contrasting representations of black urban life and vied to establish their authority as indigenous interpreters. In time, however, Clark, Baraka, and Bearden each concluded that acting as interpreters for white America placed dangerous constraints on black intellectual practice. On the Corner reveals how the condition of entry into the public sphere for African American intellectuals in the post-civil rights era has been confinement to what Clark called "the topic that is reserved for blacks." UR - https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674726109 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674726109.jpg ER -