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FREEDOMWAYS  FIRST QUARTER 1968

takes on startling implications when one remembers the countless accounts of its use in other cities. 

"The 'throw-away knife' is a standard inside joke on the force - you carry an extra knife on you to 'throw-away' next to a suspect if you accidentally or not so accidentally shoot him, so as to make it appear that he has been shot during an attempted assault." 

On and on Conot digs into the Watts conflagration and when he has finished a whole system of planned brutality, discrimination, bitterness, and misery; then apology by status quo defenders stands unmasked and indicted. 

One is left with no other conclusion but that here is a system that must be destroyed root and branch if the nation is to survive and its stated democratic goals achieved. 

John Henry Jones

RACE AND CLASS IN BRAZIL

NEGROES IN BRAZIL: A STUDY OF RACE CONTACT AT BAHIA. By Donald Pierson. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale. 420 pages. $10.00. 

IT IS WELL KNOWN that race relations in Brazil are not the same as race relations in the United States. The contrast, however, has often been exaggerated. The book under review, first published in 1935, and reissued with a new introduction by the author, tends to perpetuate what the Brazilian writer Fernando Henrique Cardoso calls the myth of rural democracy which serves as a defense mechanism developed by the dominant white group to prevent an objective analysis of social life. 

Briefly, let us sketch the contrasts. In Brazil, racial purity is hardly a preoccupation. If a person looks white, he is white, regardless of his ancestry. Furthermore, a few brown, or even black men of exceptional drive, ability, and good fortune have managed to rise in social status and become accepted as white. Whereas in the United States, there are two class structures, one for black and one for white, and any known quantity of Negro blood places the individual, regardless of his appearance, talents and ability, within the 
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