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On the Corner

On the Corner
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by Daniel Matlin

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Harvard University Press , pp. 368 . Hardback. New.
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  • Title On the Corner
  • Author Daniel Matlin
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harvard University Press , Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Publication date pp. 368
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 696979477
  • ISBN 9780674725287 / 067472528X
  • Weight 1.55 lbs (0.70 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.5 in (23.37 x 15.49 x 3.81 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1960's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Topical: Black History
  • Category Ethnic Issues
  • Library of Congress subjects African Americans - Social conditions -, African American intellectuals
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2013009716
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.896
  • Quantity available 3

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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 examines how three figures--Kenneth B. Clark, Amiri Baraka, and Romare Bearden--wrestled with the opportunities and dilemmas their heightened public statures entailed. Daniel Matlin locates in the 1960s a new dynamic that has continued to shape African American intellectual practice to the present day, as black urban communities became the chief objects of black intellectuals' perceived social obligations.

Black scholars and artists offered sharply contrasting representations of black urban life and vied to establish their authority as indigenous interpreters. As a psychologist, Clark placed his faith in the ability of the social sciences to diagnose the damage caused by racism and poverty. Baraka sought to channel black fury and violence into essays, poems, and plays. Meanwhile, Bearden wished his collages to contest portrayals of black urban life as dominated by misery, anger, and dysfunction.

In time, each of these figures concluded that their role as interpreters for white America placed dangerous constraints on black intellectual practice. 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."

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  • Choice, 05/01/2014, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 11/01/2013, Page 103

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