Word: cruse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jewish bugaboo which Cruse railed against is still haunting the Black intellectual community--only...
...PUBLICATION OF Harold Cruse's The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual in 1967 was meant to serve as a death blow to Black intellectual timidity. Specifically, Cruse called for an end to "pro-Semitism" which he felt was stifling Black thought...
...asserted correctly--and not anti-Semitically, that while the Jewish intellectuals emphasized their own cultural independence, they played fast and loose with the cultural independence of Blacks by advocating integration. As long as Black intellectuals continued to defer to their Jewish colleagues, according to Cruse, the Black community would be devoid of the kind of intellectual scrutiny that defined the Jewish community...
...However, Cruse's call for a divorce of what he sees as an ill-gotten marriage between Blacks and Jews has not materialized--if the lectures he gave at Harvard last fall and at the third annual W.E.B DuBois Graduate Colloquium last weekend are any indication...
Twenty years ago Cruse was there to criticize Black thinkers for holding to a dictum that every Jewish opinion was a good one. What the Black community needs now is a thinker of Cruse's force to confront Black intellectuals, and here Cruse is included, for holding to a new and equally blinding axiom: no Jewish opinion is a good...