On the Corner

African American Intellectuals and the Urban Crisis

Daniel Matlin

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$49.00 • £39.95 • €44.00

ISBN 9780674725287

Publication Date: 11/01/2013

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368 pages

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

17 color illustrations, 6 halftones

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Introduction
1. Ghettos of the Mind: Kenneth B. Clark and the Psychology of the Urban Crisis
- The Cry of the Ghetto
- Tangle of Pathology
- To Challenge the Powers That Be
- A Unifying Theory
2. Be Even Blacker: Amiri Baraka’s Names and Places
- A Sense of the Prodigal
- Speaking to Black People
- Code of Morality
- Lift Up Yr Self!
- I Will Create a City!
3. Harlem without Walls: Romare Bearden’s Realism
- The Negro Artist’s Dilemma
- To Paint the Life of My People as I Know It
- Projections
- To See How Life Can Triumph
Epilogue
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

Awards & Accolades

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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