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FREEDOMWAYS  FOURTH QUARTER 1971

lion. Dr. Tragle is a faculty member of the University of Massachusetts.)

Tucker, Sterling. FOR BLACKS ONLY: BLACK STRATEGIES FOR CHANGE IN AMERICA. Grand Rapids, Mich.: W. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. 211 pages. $4.95. (By the black author of Beyond the Burning: Life and Death of the Ghetto.)

Turner, Darwin T. IN A MINOR CHORD: THREE AFRO-AMERICAN WRITERS AND THEIR SEARCH FOR IDENTITY. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. $5.95. (An introduction to the works of Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen and Zora Neale Hurston by the well-known black critic and compiler or editor of Afro-American Writers, Images of the Negro in Literature [with Jean M. Bright] and Black American Literature: Essays Fiction, Poetry [3 vols.].)

U.S. Department of Commerce/U.S. Department of Labor. THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STATUS OF NEGROES IN THE UNITED STATES, 1970. Bureau of the Census and Bureau of Labor Statistics. U.S. Government Printing office, Washington, D. C. 20402. 156 pages. $1.25 (paper). 

Van Dyke, Henry. DEAD PIANO. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $5.95. (A novella about blacks victimizing blacks. Van Dyke, the black author of Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes and Blood of Strawberries, never seems to be able to write about anything important.)

Vietorisz, Thomas and Bennett Harrison. THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF HARLEM. New York: Praeger Publishers. xxv; 290 pages. $15.00. (Other books are Carolyn Shaw Bell's The Economics of the Ghetto [Bobbs-Merrill], W. Henderson and L. Ledebur's Economic Disparity: Problems and Strategies for Black America [Free Press], William K. Tabb's The Political Economy of the Black Ghetto [Norton] and A. Pinkney and R. R. Woock's Poverty and Politics in Harlem [College and University Press Service, New Haven, Conn.].)

Vincent, Theodore G. BLACK POWER AND THE GARVEY MOVEMENT. New York: Ramparts Press: Simon and Schuster. 299 pages. $5.95. (The black author teaches black studies at the University of California at Berkeley. This is the first study of the Garvey movement since Edmund D. Cronon's Black Moses in 1955. There are four recent reprints of The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey by Arno, Cass, Atheneum and Kelley. Amy Jacques Garvey's Garvey and Garveyism was reprinted in 1970 by Collier Books. The Perilous Road of Marcus M. Garvey: A Bibliography [1969] is in Daniel T. William's Eight Negro Bibliographies just published by Kraus Reprint Co. John Henrik Clarke is preparing a book of Garvey's writings and appraisals of Garvey to be published soon. The Collected Works of Marcus Garvey has been announced but is not yet published by Cass and Co. in London. Elton C. Fax is now writing a biography of Marcus Garvey. Robert Hill of Jamaica, W.I., and the Institute of the Black World, Atlanta, Ga., is completing a major work on Garvey. One or two graduate theses have also been done on him. The Garvey revival is on.)

Wallenstein, Steve and George Fisher with Jacob Brackman. BACKFIRE: ORDEAL AT CORNELL. New York: Chelsea House Publishers. $10.00 (cloth); $2.95 (paper). (About the April 1969 takeover of an administration building by 200 black Cornell students.)

Walton, Jr., Hanes. THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF MARTIN LUTHER

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