Acknowledgements

Blues for Brother

What is Left? An Introduction

PART ONE Early Writing

ESSAYS

Salute to Josephine Baker, Magnificent Negro Artist (Daily Worker 14,1951; Rebellion or Revolution 1968)

A Negro Looks at Cuba (Unpublished, 1960)

Race and Bohemianism in Greenwich Village (The Crisis, January 1960)

James Baldwin, the Theater and His Critics (Unpublished, 1963)

CORRESPONDENCE

Letter to the Amsterdam News (April 19, 1956)

Open Letter to Harry Belafonte (Unpublished, November, 1956)

PART TWO From The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967)

Individualism and the ``Open Society''

Cultural Leadership and Culture Democracy

Negroes and Jews-The Two Nationalisms and the Block(ked) Plurality

PART THREE Black Power Era

ESSAYS

On Explaining 20th Century Negro History (Negro Digest, July 1967)

The Fire This Time?: Eldridge Cleaver: Post-Prison Speeches and Writings (New York Review of Books, May 8, 1969)

The Integrationist Ethic as a Basis for Scholarly Endeavors (Speech given to Yale University Black Student Alliance, 1969)

The Little Rock National Black Political Convention (Black World, October 1974)

PART FOUR From Rebellion or Revolution? (1968)

Rebellion or Revolution? I

Rebellion or Revolution? II

Marxism and the Negro

PART FIVE Post-Black Power Writings

ESSAYS

The Racial Origins of American Theater: A Response to Robert Brustein (Unpublished)

The New Negro History of John Hope Franklin---Promise and Progress (Unpublished)

Amilcar Cabral and the Afro-American Reality (Black World, October 1975)

The Pan-African Constituency and the Black Electorate (Black World, January 1975)

Review of the Paul Robeson Controversy (First World, 1979)

CORRESPONDENCE AND LATE ESSAY

``Letter to Ralph Story'' (Unpublished, September 10, 1986)

Interludes with Duke Ellington (Unpublished, 1982)

Letter to Adolph Reed (Unpublished, June 11, 1986)

PART SIX From Plural but Equal (1987)

Conclusions

PART SEVEN Interview with Harold Cruse

An Interview with Harold Cruse (Conducted by Van Gosse, Radical History Review, May 1997)

Index