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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