Crouch, Stanley

Crouch, Stanley

▪ American journalist and critic
born Dec. 14, 1945, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.

      American journalist and critic noted for his range of interests and for his outspoken essays on African-American arts, politics, and culture.

      Crouch grew up in Los Angeles, where he attended two junior colleges and was an actor-playwright in the Studio Watts company (1965–67). While teaching at the Claremont Colleges (1968–75), he also wrote poetry and played drums; initially active in the civil rights movement, he abandoned it for a more militant viewpoint. He moved to New York City, where he promoted jazz performances, then became a staff writer for the Village Voice (1979–88).

      Writers Ralph Ellison (Ellison, Ralph) and, especially, Albert Murray (Murray, Albert L.) crucially influenced major changes in Crouch's thinking. Like Murray, he criticized politicians and writers who viewed black people as victims and black culture as deprived. He came to oppose black nationalism, accusing it of narrowness of vision, even of racism; (racism) separatist leaders such as Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael (Carmichael, Stokely), according to Crouch, vitiated the Civil Rights Movement. An enthusiastic admirer of what he considered avant-garde jazz in the 1970s, he opposed the music in the 1980s, when he became a spokesman for popular jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. The objects of Crouch's published attacks included many forms of racism, as well as filmmaker Spike Lee, novelist Toni Morrison (Morrison, Toni), and rap music. In the 1990s he wrote columns for the New York Daily News and articles for magazines such as The New Yorker and Esquire. He was the author of two collections of essays, Notes of a Hanging Judge (1990) and The All-American Skin Game; or, The Decoy of Race: The Long and Short of It, 1990–1994 (1995).

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