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Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 16:57:01 -0400
From: Laura Chrisman <chrisman.28-AT-osu.edu>
Subject: New Black Scholar special issue



The Black Scholar has just published an important and provocative special 
issue, 'Black Intellectuals: Commentary and Critiques'. (volume 31, number 1)

Contents include

Jonathan Scott Holloway, 'The Black Intellectual and the "Crisis Canon" in 
the Twentieth Century'
(presents a critical genealogy of black US intellectuals from Alexander 
Crummell culminating in the "Harvard-Gates-West phenomenon", which Holloway 
sees as exhibiting the deleterious effects of self-obsessed "crisis canon" 
mentality')

Martin Kilson, 'Black Intellectual as Establishmentarian: Henry Louis 
Gates' Odyssey'
(gives an account of the various stages of the Harvard Black Studies 
program before and including Gates' arrival;  Kilson characterizes Gates as 
an 'academic entrepreneur' with a right-wing establishmentarian ideology)

Mumia Abu-Jamal, 'Soyinka's Africa: Continent of Crisis, Conflict and 
Cradle of the Gods'
(gives a survey of Soyinka's life and work, that inspires reflection on the 
moral and political role of the activist intellectual and artist, a role 
performed differently by Abu-Jamal himself)

Peniel E Joseph, a review essay on 'Radio Free Dixie: Robert F Williams and 
the Roots of Black Power'

The website for The Black Scholar is www.theblackscholar.org. Single copies 
cost $6; an indiviual annual subscription is $30; institutional 
subscription is $85.

Laura Chrisman
Associate Professor, Department of African-American and African Studies
The Ohio State University
486 University Hall, 230 North Oval Mall
Columbus, OHIO 43210
tel: 614-292-7613
fax: 614-292-2293

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