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On the Corner

African American Intellectuals and the Urban Crisis

Daniel Matlin

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$49.00 • £42.95 • €44.95

ISBN 9780674725287

Publication Date: 11/01/2013

368 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

17 color illustrations, 6 halftones

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Daniel Matlin is Lecturer in the History of the United States of America since 1865 at King’s College London.

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In the Guardian, read Daniel Matlin on the contradictions and complexities of the black power movement, as embodied by the late Amiri Baraka
Read Matlin’s Times Higher Education piece on the persistent barriers to public prominence faced by African American intellectuals concerned with topics other than race
At the HUP Blog, read Matlin on the work of Albert Murray, a writer and critic who figures prominently in On the Corner

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Co-Winner, 2014 Arthur Miller Centre First Book Prize, Arthur Miller Centre for American Studies at the University of East Anglia

Co-Winner, 2013 Benjamin L. Hooks Institute National Book Award, Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis

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