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RECENT BOOKS
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Giovanni, Nikki. GEMINI: AN EXTENDED AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT ON MY FIRST TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF BEING A BLACK POET. Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs-Merrill. 149 pages. $5.95. (Giovanni's other books are Black Feeling, Black Talk, Black Judgment (poetry), 1970, Re:Creation (poetry), 1970, Spin a Soft Black Song (poetry edited for children), 1971, and Night Comes Softly: Anthology of Black Female Voices, 1971.)

Graymont, Barbara. THE IROQUOIS IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press. 359 pages. $11.50. (A book about how the various tribes of the powerful Iroquois Confederacy fought on both sides of the American Revolution and were destroyed. The Indian leaders in this conflict are played down here. This is another part of the 300-odd year American Indian history that white American historians have overlooked or ignored as unimportant. Other recent books about American Indians are Two Hundred Years of American Indian Art by Norman Feder, A History of Indian Literature: The American Aborigines, Their Origin and Antiquity: A Collection of Paper by Ten Authors assembled and edited by Diamond Jenness, The First Hundred Years of Nino Cochise: The Untold Story of an Apache Indian Chief as told by Ciye [Nino] Cochise to A. Kinney Griffith and Touch the Earth; A Self-Portrait of Indian Existence by T.C. McLuhan. Also relevant is the recent Green Hell: Massacre of the Brazilian Indians by Lucien Bodard.)

Greer, Colin. COBWEB ATTITUDES: ESSAYS ON EDUCATIONAL AND and CULTURAL MYTHOLOGY. New York: Teachers College Press, Columbia University. 70 pages. $3.50. (A book that challenges many educational theories as myths.)

Gregory, Dick. DICK GREGORY'S POLITICAL PRIMER. Edited by James R. McGraw. New York: Harper and Row. 335 pages. $6.95. (Gregory is the militant author of many books.)

Gross, Mary Anne (editor). AH, MAN, YOU FOUND ME AGAIN. Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press. 96 pages. $5.95. (cloth); $2.95 (paper). (These are stories told by 5 to 10 year old black and Spanish-speaking children in New York City in "Black English" which isn't very far from regular English. The stories are beautiful. There are also 30 photographs. Book can be used in classrooms.)

Guthrie, Robert. BEING BLACK: PSYCHOLOGICAL-SOCIOLOGICAL DILEMMAS. San Francisco, Calif.: Canfield Press. vii; 223 pages. $3.50 (paper). (Contains "The White American Psyche" by the late Lloyd T. Delany [reprinted from Freedomways, Summer 1968] and "Up North-Down South" by Brumsic Brandon, Jr. [reprinted from Freedomways, Fall 1963]. Also pieces by A. F. Pouissaint, J. O. Killens, Bob Teague's "Charlie Doesn't Even Know...." H. R. Cayton, Kenneth B. Clark, James P. Comer, W. H. Grier and Price M. Cobbs, Pauli Murray and others.)

Haller, Jr., John S. OUTCASTS FROM EVOLUTION: SCIENTIFIC ATTITUDES OF RACIAL INFERIORITY, 1859-1900. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 243 pages. $7.50. (How anthropology, medicine, psychology and sociology proved "scientifically" the inferiority of the Negro thus providing the rationalization for segregation, disfranchisement and economic super-exploitation

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