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REFERENCE AND RESEARCH
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Science and Society articles published from 1954 to 1965 on the federal government and the Negro, black nationalism, slavery and other subjects are left out of the bibliography. There is one major listing plus a short discussion elsewhere from Studies on the Left.
There are several articles listed from Monthly Review, Dissent and Ramparts. There are four articles from the Negro magazine Liberator. The liberal magazines such as The Progressive, The Nation, and New Politics are given good coverage. But the many important articles in Masses and Mainstream (a monthly from 1948 to 1963), International Socialist Review, New World Review, American Dialog, Liberation (the pacifist magazine), Theatre Arts and New Foundations are all left out.
Elizabeth W. Miller of the staff of Daedalus magazine, the compiler of this bibliography and the person who selected the books and articles to be included or excluded, obviously has little competence in the field of Negro studies. She doesn't know what is important and what is peripheral. That her book has the imprimatur of Harvard University Press only shows how widespread is the incompetence in this field. Miss Miller's introduction and annotations are amateurish, pedestrian and uninformed; some are ludicrous. John Dollards's Caste and Class in a Southern Town and Stanley Elkin's Slavery are listed and called classics. But Herbert Aptheker's American Negro Slave Revolts is not listed at all. There is just one article listed by Bayard Rustin (from Commentary). Ebony's special issue "The White Problem in America" (August 1965) and other Ebony pieces are listed; but only two minor articles are listed from what is undoubtedly the greatest issue ever published by Ebony-its enlarged Emancipation Centennial number of Sept. 1963. The issue as a whole is ignored but the Progressive's "A Century of Struggle" number (Dec. 1962) is listed. Since important books and articles published before 1954 are included, Carey McWilliam's important article "Race Discrimination and the Law" (Science and Society, Winter 1945, also published as a pamphlet) should be here.
Anne Braden's long article in Monthly Review is listed but not her important book The Wall Between (1958) or her long article in FREEDOMWAYS; the reprint of Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1960) is here but not the paperback reprint of Douglass's most important book, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1962) or Philip S. Foner's biography of Frederick Douglass (1964); Ralph Ginzburg's paperback 100 Years of Lynchings (1962) and P. Durham and E.L. Jones's The Negro Cow-

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