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Like the pirate-turned-judge who was extremely hard on his former compatriots, Crouch, a former Village Voice writer, has collected a series of essays and reviews that portray the U.S. civil rights movement as a "noble movement that went loco." His case consists of anecdotal evidence presented seriatim rather than any systematic presentation within or drawn from a larger framework. Still, there is much that provokes thought in this collection, and the range of topics with which Crouch deals--from the implications of Jesse Jackson's political campaigns to black homosexuality to the treatment of blacks in Pasadena, Texas--is interesting. Readers who miss or choose to ignore the overarching theme of the volume can still find the individual parts worth reading.
- Joseph Stewart Jr., Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
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"Eloquent."--The Washington Times
"Provocative....Underlying these verbal flourishes, however, is a tough, learned, analytic prose, in which Crouch, at once more radical and conservative than most African-American critics, challenges and reinterprets the standard line on gender and race relations in America. Through an increasingly uniform chorus of critics, Crouch's voice cuts uncompromisingly clear." . r
"Crouch writes courageously....Crouch is writing not only to or for minorities, but for all Americans....For non-black readers, Crouch provides an uncommonly incisive entry point into the world of black culture for the ignorant outsider. In essay after essay, Crouch's unblinking eye guides the naive, uninitiated reader into the labyrinthine experience of minorities more skillfully than perhaps any other writer since James Baldwin."--Magill's Literary Annual 1991
"Stanley Crouch submits ideas and artistic productions to the 'acid test.' He's a hard task master, on a mission from the spirits to rescue America's intellectual legacy from half-stepping pseudo-intellectual sham artists."--David Earl Jackson, Tennessee Arts Commission
"Behind his dissenter's rhetoric and hangman's mask, Stanley Crouch is actually a benign and eloquent provocateur."--Ralph Ellison
"He is not only provocative but perceptive and, on more than one occasion, wise. In the end it must be said that this is the kind of book you want not merely to read, but to ponder."--Washington Post Book World
"Succeeds in sharing much of the richness and intensity of the life of a contemporary black intellectual, free from what Beryl Markham called the 'cultured fumblings of a mortar-board intelligence.'"--The New York Times Book Review
"A delight for anyone who enjoys good writing in the George Orwell tradition."--The Brooklyn Free Press
"It should be required reading for any who believe that there is any uniformity in the thinking of articulate and thoughtful black writers."--Allan C. Brownfeld, Washington Inquirer

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Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (March 28, 1991)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0195069986
ISBN-13: 978-0195069983
Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Book to Be Reckoned With, July 4, 2001

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This review is from: Notes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989 (Hardcover)

Stanley Crouch is an excellent essayist, and of his books, Notes of a Hanging Judge is the best I've read so far. That being said, some of the essays in this collection still anger me, some 8 years after I first read them.

Much of his national exposure has seemingly been created by the gratuitous pot shots he takes at notable blacks, in efforts to knock them off some imagined pedestal. Two examples stand out. In the Rage of Race,(#34) one of two essays about James Baldwin, Crouch embarks on an acidic deconstruction; claiming that Baldwin's late-career work "sold out to rage, despair, self-righteousness and a will to scandalize." Crouch further wrote that Baldwin's mantle as black literary spokesman led him to neglect his craft, and eroded the impact of his subsequent work. To the contrary, there are numerous black artists, whose passion and activism did not lower the quality of their work(i.e. Paul Robeson; and Ishmael Reed-see Airing Dirty Laundry, and Writin' is Fightin). To Baldwin's credit, he defiantly refused to "sit in some ivory tower perfecting my craft" while events on the civil rights ground demanded his attention and participation. In "Nationalism of Fools(Essay #25)Crouch reduced Malcolm X to a purveyor of "a cockeyed racial vision of history which precluded any insights into human nature..." Crouch's willingness to adopt the mainstream consensus about Malcolm left him no room to study the true evolution of Malcolm's world view; it expanded beyond U.S. borders, transcended civil rights, and embraced human rights instead.

With these criticisms, you may wonder why I gave this book 5 stars. I did so because I LEARNED SO MUCH!! Crouch introduced me to people I'd never heard of, and whose work I now enjoy. The best example is("Chitlins at the Waldorf"-Essay #6) his tribute to Albert Murray, who was a contemporary of Ralph Ellison. Murray's book, Stompin the Blues, is widely regarded as the definitive text about the meaning of jazz and the blues. Because of Crouch, I now have four of Charles Johnson's books. Crouch's essay, "Another Master" profiles Senegalese film maker Ousmane Sembene, who recently had a month-long festival of his films shown at NYC's Film Forum. For all the acerbity in some essays, Crouch also shows real compassion and empathy, as his essay about Lionel Mitchell attests.

For the most part, I will never align myself politically with the conservatives with whom Crouch appears cozy. However, I will never stop reading his essays either, for they are rich, improvisational, educational and eclectic. Notes of a Hanging Judge is an intense,fascinating workout, which is at times fun. It is a truly worthwhile reading experience, and I highly recommend it!

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