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RECENT BOOKS KAISER Carmichael, Charles V. Hamilton, John Q. Wilson, Cleaver, G. Breitman, Tom Kahn, Julius Hobson, F. Fanon, Tom Hayden.) Staples, Robert (editor). THE BLACK FAMILY: ESSAYS AND STUDIES. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth Publishing Co. $4.95. (The black sociologist editor has assembled a good book on the black family with critical introductions.) Starke, Catherine Juanita. BLACK PORTRAITURE IN AMERICAN FICTION: STOCK CHARACTERS, ARCHETYPES AND INDIVIDUALS. New York: Basic Books. $6.95. (Traces the Black in American fiction from J. F. Cooper in the 1820's to the present. Both black and white authors discussed.) Steptoe, John. TRAIN RIDE. New York: Harper and Row. Illustrated. $3.95. (A book for children by the young black author-artist who gave us Stevie. He hails from the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, N.Y.) Sterne, Emma Gelders. HIS WAS THE VOICE: THE LIFE OF W.E.B. DU BOIS. New York: Crowell-Collier Press. xv; 232 pages. $4.95. (Herbert Aptheker calls this book for young people in many ways the best extant biography of Du Bois. There are many factual errors in the book, however. Other new books about Du Bois are Rayford W. Logan's W.E.B. Du Bois: A Profile [Hill and Wang], Julius Lester's The Seventh Son: The Thought and Writings of W.E.B. Du Bois [Random House] and Andrew G. Paschal's A W.E.B. Du Bois Reader [Macmillian]. When we add the earlier Du Bois books by Leslie A. Lacy, Meyer Weinberg, Walter Wilson, Philip S. Foner, the editors of FREEDOMWAYS and Mrs. Du Bois plus all of the recent and coming reprint of Du Bois's works including his Collected Works [40 vols.] and his autobiography, we have a sizable and growing bibliography of books by and about Du Bois. His letters, unpublished speeches and other papers are to be published also.) Thomas, Charles W. BOYS NO MORE: A BLACK PSYCOLOGIST'S VIEW OF COMMUNITY. Beverly Hills, Calif: Glencoe Press Insight Series. 125 pages (paper). (Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint's Why Blacks Kill Blacks is published by Emerson Hall Press in New York City.) THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY DEGREES OF BLACKNESS COMIN AT YOU. AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE SONIA SANCHEZ WRITERS WORKSHOP AT COUNTEE CULLEN LIBRARY IN HARLEM. 5X Publishing Co., P.O. Box 463, Manhattanville Sta., New York 10031. 190 pages. (Poetry, short stories and plays. Very talented black young men and women expressing protest, love, black life and hope, getting it together, beautiful, right on. Our young Blacks have a lot of talent. We must help them get a chance to develop it, to express it in their many different ways.) Thurman, Howard. THE SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND. New York: Harper and Row. $4.95. (Rev. Thurman is the black author of many religious books over the decades.) Toppin, Edgar A. A BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF BLACKS IN AMERICA SINCE 1528. New York: David McKay. $7.95. Tragle, Henry Irving. THE SOUTHAMPTON SLAVE REVOLT OF 1831: A COMPILATION OF SOURCE MATERIAL. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 508 pages; illustrated. $15.00. (This is an important, exhaustive collection of all of the important documentary material on Nat Turner's rebel- 415
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