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REFERENCE AND RESEARCH         KAISER

dom and David Walker's Appeal (two books edited by Aptheker and C.M. Wiltse). Salk lists The Negro in Science (1955) and all of Aptheker's books. Welsch has nothing on the Negro in science and invention except the book Negroes and Medicine. Both Salk and Welsch should have brought out Aptheker's essay "The Negro Scientist and Inventor" in Toward Negro Freedom as well as Charles Drew's "Negro Scholars in Scientific Research" (Journal of Negro History, April 1950).

There are too many books against the Negro mentioned and too few for the Negro cited in Welsch's book. The author is not committed enough to Negro freedom. There is too much quoting of writers like Nathaniel Weyl, nobodies in the field of Negro studies. Furthermore, Welsch doesn't know who the important writers in this field are. Henderson H. Donald's The Negro Freedman is called a good over-all view and Francis L. Broderick's poor but arrogant attempt at a biography of the towering W. E. B. Du Bois is called first-class. But only three books, pamphlets or articles are listed from the tremendous 1964 bibliography of Du Bois: Souls of Black Folk, Dusk of Dawn and Suppression of the African Slave Trade. Black Reconstruction, The Philadelphia Negro, John Brown, The Negro, his many Atlanta University studies, The World and Africa, In Battle for Peace and many others are all left out.

Much of the periodical material (some of it crucial to a survey of writing on the Negro) as found in Science and Society, The Nation, New Masses, Masses and Mainstream, Survey Graphic, Dissent, Liberation, New Politics, New Republic and The Progressive is unknown to Welsch. He mentions none of the critical literature around G. Myrdal's An American Dilemma. John Dollard's old, out-dated Caste and Class in a Southern Town is still called a classic. Welsch does better as he comes into the more recent period leaning heavily on material in FREEDOMWAYS (especially the Harlem and Southern numbers) as a source and a guide. But there are generally too many books by whites about Negroes listed and too few written by Negroes themselves. The section on the major issues today, the Negro protest and the southern reaction is quite good although there's too much emphasis here on Communism and the Negro. I also miss The Angry Black South, The Angry Black and The New Negro here.

The magazines Hue and Quarterly Review of Higher Education Among Negroes, called a relatively new journal, ceased publication a good many years ago. The section on "The Negro and the Arts" is also good although there are some important omissions. Novelists 

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