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RECENT BOOKS                 KAISER

Press. $5.95 (cloth); $2.65 (paper). (A black school administrator explains the actions and philosophy he used to regenerate some of Philadelphia's worst schools.)

Frucht, Richard (editor). BLACK SOCIETY IN THE NEW WORLD. New York: Random House. xi; 403 pages.

Gaines, Ernest J. A LONG DAY IN NOVEMBER. New York: Dial Press. 137 pages. $4.95. (A book for children by the well-known black novelist and short story writer.)

Genovese, Eugene D. IN RED AND BLACK: MARXIAN EXPLORATIONS IN SOUTHERN AND AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY. New York: Pantheon Books. 435 pages. $10.00. (E. Kaiser's pamphlet In Defense of the People's Black and White History and Culture [1971] gives Genovese's phony, fake "Marxist" history a pretty good short analysis. Here Genovese has collected his article in defense of W. Styron's novel and against Ten Black Writers Respond, his attack on U.S. Marxist historians, his pieces on southern slavery, etc. He says that he is the only real U.S. Marxist. This paranoid, arrogant, one-up-on-all-of-you-fellows "historian" seems to be off his rocker and arguing in any and all directions. He's really laughable except that other white historians like Ann J. Lane and others are influenced by his prolific pen.)

Giovanni, Nikki. SPIN A SOFT BLACK SONG: POEMS FOR CHILDREN. Illustrated by Charles Bible. New York: Hill and Wang. $5.50. (Black poet and black illustrator here have produced a book of poems with drawings for and about children. Giovanni edited another book Night Comes Softly: Anthology of Black Female Voices [Nik Tom Publications, $2.50].)

Goldschmid, Marcel L. (editor). BLACK AMERICANS AND WHITE RACISM: THEORY AND RESEARCH. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. xiii; 448 pages. $9.50 (cloth); $6.25 (paper). (Almost all of the contributors are white: Thomas F. Pettigrew, Gary T. Marx; also M. L. King Jr., Hylan Lewis, etc.)

Goldstein, Rhoda L. (editor). BLACK LIFE AND CULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. xiii, 400 pages. $6.95 (cloth); $2.95 (paper). (Articles by Ralph D. Abernathy, H. Aptheker, Ann J. Lane, Alphonso Pinkney, James Denmark, etc., and students of Douglass College, Rutgers University, N.J., where the editor coordinated a course on the life and culture of Black Americans.)

Greenlee, Sam. BLUES FOR AN AFRICAN PRINCESS. Third World Press, 7850 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago 60619. 36 pages. $1.25 (paper). (A book of poetry by the black author of the recent novel The Spook Who Sat by the Door. His second novel Baghdad Blues is to be published soon. Other Third World Press books already published or coming are Zack Gilbert's My Own Hallelujahs [poetry], Hoyt W. Fuller's Journey to Africa [a critical travelogue by the well-known writer and editor of the Black World], Sterling D. Plumpp's Black Rituals [social analysis], Shawna Maglangbayan's Garvey, Lumumba, Malcolm: Black Nationalist-Separatists, Dudley Randall's More to Remember: Poems of Four Decades, George Kent's Blackness and the Adventure of Western Culture [a book of literary criticism by an important black critic who is a professor at the University of Chicago] and St. Clair Drake's The Redemption of Africa and Black Rebellion. More about some of these in a later issue of FREEDOMWAYS.)
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