Harold Cruse:
The Integrationist Ethic as a Basis for Scholarly Endeavors
Competency Worksheet #4
Discuss how Harold Cruse defines and/or understands each of the 8 categories below in his essay, The Integrationist Ethic as a Basis for Scholarly Endeavors. Provide quotations and examples from his work to support your responses to each question.
1. Democratic Ethnic Pluralism
Lack of diversity our society have in religion, ethnicity, education, etc
This failure demands that another set of cultural and political values be extended into our society to fill the void.
For example Cruse belief that both black and white have once supported the ideal of the American creed and fail.
2. Anglo-Saxon Political Ideology (racism, Americanism, industrialism, nullification of competing subcultures)
A group of whites
3. Black Philosophy Black Cultural Nationalism
4. Protestant Ethic
Hard work
5. WASP Cultural Nationalism (Cultural particularism)
6. revolutionary vs. reformist
7. Beginning Point of Black Studies
8. Goal of Black Studies