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REFERENCE AND RESEARCH               KAISER

since the definitive treatment of (American race relations) by Gunnar Myrdal in An American Dilemma (1944), now a generation old, have we had such an extensive and searching bibliographical collection." I remember a sizable book Race and Region: A Descriptive Bibliography published in 1949 and listed here under "Tools for Further Research" which should be mentioned as between Myrdal and Miller. Miss Miller, however, in her preface, moves away from Pettigrew when she calls the work a selective bibliography; she states further that it was neither possible nor useful to attempt all-inclusiveness.
Well, which is it? And if selective, what was the basis for the selections? Since this question is not answered, the book cannot be evaluated on that basis and must be looked at, as Pettigrew said, as "an extensive and searching bibliographical collection."

Looked at in this light, what do we find? Compiler Miller has listed a lot of the rabid, vile, segregationist material but has shunned much of the left-wing, radical material. This reveals a real bias in the bibliography which is either deliberate or from ignorance of all of the material on the Negro. Either way, the bibliography is seriously limited. The Negro rights argument is no longer between the diehard segregationists and the liberals as it was in the mid-fifties; it is now between the liberals and the radicals as to how much and how fast. This bibliography reflects the former argument but not much of the latter. Under "The Freedom Revolution" (civil rights, protest, response and resistance), there is no article from FREEDOMWAYS: A Quarterly Review of the Negro Freedom Movement (Spring 1961 to date). There is just one article from FREEDOMWAYS in the entire book and that is Jack Minnis's piece on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in the Spring 1965 special issue on Mississippi. This article, under the heading "Political Rights and Suffrage" was undoubtedly the only full-length piece Miss Miller could find on the subject or she wouldn't have used this. But the listing of this article plus the note in "Tools for Further Research" saying that each number of FREEDOMWAYS contains a list of recent books show that compiler Miller knew about the magazine. What she did was use the contents of FREEDOMWAYS extensively in her book but deliberately omit all but one listing from it. This is a terribly unethical thing to do.

Staughton Lynd's articles in The Nation and Dissent are listed but his FREEDOMWAYS articles are omitted. Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois died in August 1963 at the time of the March on Washington and FREEDOMWAYS carried articles on him and his work in two numbers including an enlarged special issue (Winter 1965) devoted exclusively to Dr.

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