5/29/2023 Resisting Injustice and the Feminist Ethics of Care in the Ag... by David A.J. RichardsRead Now![]() ![]() ![]() Though this “crisis” is first voiced by Harold Cruse in his 1967 The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, the form and method by which the Black intellectual operates is grounded in what Frederick Douglas calls “the cruel hand” in his speech to the Colored National Convention held in Rochester, New York in July 1853. What limits, constrains, and restricts the Black Intellectual is a Duboisian double-consciousness-there is a “two-ness” to what it means to be a Black Intellectual, and engage in a Black Intellectualism that bridges “blackness” and “intellectualism.” Yet, there is a “crisis” for the Black Intellectual-it is a “crisis” predicated how “blackness” and “intellectualism” function within American society and contribute to the philosophical/ideological scope of the American consciousness. ![]() ![]() Being a Black Intellectual presents a problem to what it means to be American, and how the American consciousness frames itself, both with and outside of racial “being.” Both extend a kind of knowledge that forces itself upon and places the Black intellectual in an epistemological situation of existentiality bracketed by limitations, constraints, and restrictions. Presently, in this post-Obama age, the Black intellectual remains perennially in crisis. ![]()
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