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...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...
...changing demographics and lifestyles of Blacks since the mid-20th century has created a situation where the climate of intellectual debate established by Du Bois and his colleagues is no longer possible, Cruse said...
...Cruse said a resurgence of Black intellectualism would require a "conscious community of intellectuals who are committed at an institutional level to create new lines of communication." But Cruse said the fact that such a development is "not in sight" is partly due to the fact that Black elites coming out of the major universities like Harvard and Yale are isolated from the general Black population...
Several people attending the colloquium accused Cruse of being overly nostalgic and pessimistic...
...forming a society like ours, we are attempting to counter just what Cruse was saying about Black intellectuals being isolated and unable to communicate with each other," said Scott Brewer, a philosophy graduate student who is vice-president of the society...