Rebellion or Revolution?

A social critic and teacher of African American studies at the University of Michigan, Cruse (1916-2005) is best known for his 1967 The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual. This collection of 13 essays maps his intellectual and personal journey through the tumultuous 1960s that led to his masterpiece. The two parts of the title essay are included, of course, along with Negro soldier sequences censored in Call Me Mister, an Afro-American's cultural views, revolutionary nationalism and the Afro-American, Marxism and the Negro, behind the Black Power slogan, and others. William Morrow and Company, New York, published the 1968 original. Annotation 穢2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)