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FREEDOMWAYS THIRD QUARTER 1969 ONE YEAR LATER: AN ASSESSMENT OF THE NATION'S RESPONSE TO THE CRISIS DESCRIBED BY THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMISSION ON CIVIL DISORDERS BY URBAN AMERICA, INC. AND THE URBAN COALITION. Forewords by John W. Gardner and Terry Sanford. New York: F.A Praeger. $3.95. Reed, Ishmael. YELLOW BACK RADIO BROKE-DOWN. New York: Double- day. 177 pages. $4.95. (This is the second novel by the young Negro Poet and author of the novel The Free-Lance Pallbearers [1967]. His books are way-out and surrealistic. This one is about a black cowboy and his African magic.) Richette, Lisa Aversa. THE THROWAWAY CHILDREN. Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott. x+342 pages. $6.95 (Mrs. Richette is a former assistant district attorney in Philadelphia's juvenile court. This book contains 22 cases she was involved in. The juvenile court, she says, channels youthful offenders out of sight and out of mind. Youth get control and punishment in jail or jail-like youth detention facilities rather than treatment and rehabilitation. Mrs. Richette wants basic reforms in the juvenile court system and the creation of community bureaus to handle youth problems.) Riessman, Frank. STRATEGIES AGAINST POVERTY. New York: Random House. x+114 pages. $6.95 Robinson, Armstead L.; Foster, Craig C.; and Ogilvie, Donald H. (editors). BLACK STUDIES IN THE UNIVERSITY: A SYMPOSIUM. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press. $6.00 (cloth); $1.75 (paper). (These are the papers read at the symposium on black studies held at Yale University in May 1968. The black and white participants were Harold Cruse, Martin Kilson, Jr., M.R. Karenga, G.A. McWorter, D.H. Ogilvie, Boniface Obichere, Nathan Hare, R.F. Thompson, McGeorge Bundy, E.S. Redkey and Alvin Poussaint. While all approve studying the black experience and teaching and learning black history, all do not really want separate black studies institutes in the white universities. Research centers on Afro-American culture and history will be established at 40 colleges and universities by $700,000 in grants to the United Negro College Fund.) Robinson, Rose. EAGLE IN THE AIR. New York: Crown Publishers. 159 pages. $4.95. (Rose Robinson, a Negro, has a BA in Art Education from the University of Chicago where she grew up. She has taught and choreographed modern dance and was once part of a singing trio [with her sisters]. This is her first novel.) Romero, Patricia (editor). IN BLACK AMERICA- 1968: THE YEAR OF AWAKENING. United Publishing Corp., 1413 K St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005. Over 600 pages. Illus. $3.95 (paper). (This volume contains 20 studies of every phase of black live in the U.S. today. This is the first of a series. Can be used for supplementary reading in high schools and colleges.) Roth, R.S. NEGRO HEROES SHOW THE WAY. International Book Corp., 7300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, Fla. $3.40(For schools and libraries only.) Stone, Chuck, BLACK POLITICAL POWER IN AMERICA. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. 261 pages. $8.50. (This is the second book by the veteran Negro journalist. His first book was Tell It Like It Is, 1967. Other books on this subject are Edward T. Clayton's The Negro Politician: His Success and Failure and Walter Christmas's The Negro in Public Affair and Government.) Sullivan, Leon H. BUILD BROTHER BUILD: FROM POVERTY TO ECO- 284