the peculiarities of the american social structure, and the position of the intellectual class within it, make the functional role of the negro intellectual a special one. the negro intellectual mus deal intimately with the white power structure and cultural aparatus, and the inner realities of the Black world at on and the same time. but in order to function successfully inn this role, he has to be acutely aware of the nature of the american social dynamic and how it monitors the ingredients of class stratifications in american society…. therefore the functional role of the negro intellectual demands that he cannot me absolutely separated from either the black or white world
– harold curse The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967)
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