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RECENT BOOKS
ERNEST KAISER

(Books reviewed in this number of FREEDOMWAYS have been omitted.)

THE NEGRO IN THE U.S.

Abcarian, Richard (editor). RICHARD WRIGHT'S NATIVE SON: A CRITICAL HANDBOOK. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth Publishing Co. (Has essays by Wright and critical and related essays on and reviews of Native Son by Addison Gayle, Jr., Sterling Brown, James Baldwin, Zack Gilbert and others. Houston A. Baker, Jr., black associate professor of English at the University of Virginia and editor of Black Literature in America, 1971, is editing a similar book soon to be published—Twentieth Century Interpretations of Native Son [Prentice-Hall].)

Abramson, Michael. PALANTE: YOUNG LORDS PARTY. New York: McGraw-Hill. 159 pages. $8.95 (cloth); $3.45 (paper). (Here in interviews, photographs, speeches, poetry and documents are the Young Lords Party's programs and political principles in their efforts to free the Puerto Rican community in New York City of grinding poverty and police repression. The first book on this movement.)

Alvarez, Joseph A. FROM RECONSTRUCTION TO REVOLUTION: THE BLACKS' STRUGGLE FOR EQUALITY. New York: Atheneum. 216 pages. $6.50.

Angelou, Maya. JUST GIVE ME A COOL DRINK OF WATER 'FORE I DIIIE: THE POETRY OF MAYA ANGELOU. New York: Random House. 49 pages. $4.95. (By the black woman author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, her recent autobiography.)

Anthony, Earl. THE TIME OF THE FURNACES: A CASE STUDY OF BLACK STUDENT REVOLT. New York: Dial Press. 131 pages. $4.95 (cloth); $1.95 paper. (This is the story of the black students who on Nov. 4, 1968, seized the San Fernando Valley State College administration building and the acting president and his staff. After their demands for educational reform had been agreed to, the students were charged with multiple felonies. There was a mass prosecution with 19 students found guilty and the three leaders given sentences of from one to 25 years. These three cases are being appealed. And the students' educational reforms were a success both at the college and in the local black community. Earl Anthony, a young black writer and former Black Panther, is the author of Picking Up the Gun: A Report on the Black Panthers [1970] which takes a black nationalist position. But the Panthers are right in saying that economic exploitation is the basis for racism and other capitalist evils. Anthony is writing a third book about political developments in Africa. His two one-act plays have been produced in New York City.)

Aptheker, Herbert. AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY: THE MODERN ERA. New York: Citadel Press. $7.95. (A few of these essays appeared earlier in Toward Negro Freedom, 1956. Most have not been published together in book form before.)

Armstrong, Gregory (editor). LIFE AT THE BOTTOM. New York: Bantam Books. xxv; 352 pages. $1.25 (paper).

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