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FREEDOMWAYS  FOURTH QUARTER 1971

Eyewitness has some new documents added and a new chapter on the black revolution to bring it up to date. Katz's Teacher's Guide to American Negro History [1968] also has a 1971 revised edition with later book listings and a list of black art and music museums added. But with the Black West Katz really breaks new ground with many new documents and photographs never seen before in pictorial or documentary histories. We had P. Durham and E.L. Jones's The Negro Cowboys, W. H. Leckie's The Buffalo Soldiers, A. Bontemps and J. Conroy's Anyplace But Here, articles on the frontier by Kenneth W. Porter and others and biographies and autobiographies of some of the black pioneers and trail blazers. But never a book before like The Black West which pulls together all strands of Blacks in the frontier or western movement from the explorers through the Spanish-American War and into the 20th century. A pioneering work revealing again the omissions and lies of most written American history.)

Keegan, Frank L. BLACKTOWN, U.S.A Boston: Little, Brown, xii; 430 pages. $8.95. (Based on tapes of various Blacks.)

Klein, Aaron E. THE HIDDEN CONTRIBUTORS: BLACK SCIENTISTS AND INVENTORS IN AMERICA. New York: Doubleday. xiii; 204 pages. $4.95. (Other similar books are Louis Haber's Black Pioneers of Science and Invention and McKinley Burt, Jr.'s Black Inventors of America. The Negro Almanac also has material on black inventors and scientists.)

[[checkmark]] Ladner, Joyce A. TOMORROW'S TOMORROW: THE BLACK WOMAN. New York: Doubleday. xxvi; 304 pages. $6.95. (Dr. Ladner, a black sociologist, studies black women here in a low income black community housing project. There are excerpts from taped interviews with black women.)

Lane, Ann J. (editor). THE DEBATE OVER SLAVERY: STANLEY ELKINS AND HIS CRITICS. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. vi; 378 pages. $8.95. (cloth); $2.95 (paper). (The editor, a white assistant professor of history at Douglass College, Rutgers University, says that Stanley M. Elkins's Slavery [1959, 1963, 1968] has extended the examination of slavery in the U.S. in permanent and profound ways. But H. Aptheker, in a footnote in American Foreign Policy and the Cold War [1962], says that "Elkins's Slavery throws the treatment of Negro slavery back to the standards of U.B. Phillips. In fact, his chapter entitled 'Slavery and Personality,' probably antedates Phillips in the coarseness of its chauvinism. There are other indications that certain gains made in scholarship in the social sciences in connection with racism and the Negro, are under mounting attack and a vigorous counterattack is needed." Jensenism is another example along with the many attacks on black history which include the Elkins book. Clarke's Ten Black Writers Respond [to Styron's book] and E. Kaiser's pamphlet In Defense of the People's Black and White History and Culture attack Elkins, Woodward, Genovese, Duberman and other historians who defend Elkins's Sambo slave thesis with no revolts, his attack on the Abolitionists and his contrasting of U.S. and Latin American slaveries. There are some essays questioning or attacking aspects of Elkins's thesis in the Lane book by Mary A. Lewis, Aileen S. Kraditor, Earl E. Thorpe, David B. Davis, Sterling Stuckey and Roy S. Bryce-Laporte. But Lane's introduction praising and upholding Elkins, her thanks to Elkins for writing Slavery and a 54-page rejoinder here

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