Cruse judged the civil-rights movement non-revolutionary for lack of new ideas

Evidence

Anticipating the “black power” view, he criticized the civil rights movement in the early 1960s for being dominated by liberal ideas and demands: This Negro rebellion, mistakenly called by some the Negro revolution, is not revolutionary because it projects no new ideas beyond what have already been ratified in the democratic philosophy of the American Constitution. (Cruse 1967, 111-112) He proposed that the movement “incorporate … a cultural program along with its economic, social, and political programs” (ibid). A “cultural program,” in Cruse’s view, would recognize both the unique characteristics of black cultural traditions, numbers of such U. — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 94

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Harold Cruse blamed Wright’s Marxist framework for obscuring his Black nationalism — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1338; Civil-rights-era writers appeared moderate only retrospectively, not to contemporaries. — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 1004
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Harold Cruse blamed Wright’s Marxist framework for obscuring his Black nationalism — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1338; Civil-rights-era writers appeared moderate only retrospectively, not to contemporaries. — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 1004

Broader Connections

• Civil-rights-era writers appeared moderate only retrospectively, not to contemporaries. #complicates (0.72) — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 1004