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Representing the Race: The Black Intellectual Dilemma

Daniel Matlin. On the Corner: African American Intellectuals and the Urban Crisis (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014) 350 pages. Review by Aaron PrideThe African American experience in the United States has been full of pitfalls and perilous challenges. These obstacles have been particularly daunting for African American intellectuals and scholars that have aimed to represent the race to the American public. In On the Corner: African American Intellectuals and the Urban Crisis, Daniel Matlin, professor at King’s College, examines African American intellectual life through the experiences of Romare Bearden, Kenneth Clark, and Everett Leroy Jones. He describes these men as, Read more