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FREEDOMWAYS            SECOND QUARTER 1972 

Furfey, Paul Hanly. THE SUBCULTURE OF THE WASHINGTON GHETTO. The Bureau of Social Research, Dept. of Sociology, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. 60 pages. $1.00 (paper).

Gayle, Jr., Addison. OAK AND IVY: A BIOGRAPHY OF PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR. New York: Doubleday: xv; 176 pages. $1.95 (paper). (Dunbar is a popular subject for biographers. Other books are Jean Gould's That Dunbar Boy, 1958, and Virginia Cunningham's Paul Laurence Dunbar and His Song, 1947. Gayle is the black editor of Black Expression, The Black Aesthetic and Bondage, Freedom and Beyond: The Prose of Black Americans and author of The Black Situation.)

Gee, Maurine H. CHICANO, AMIGO. New York: William Morrow. $3.95. (A book for children about a Chicano boy. Clarke Newlon's Famous Mexican- Americans [Dodd, Mead] is stories of famous Chicanos.)

Groh, George W. THE BLACK MIGRATION: THE JOURNEY TO URBAN AMERICA. New York: Weybright and Talley. $8.95.

Hamilton, Virginia. W.E.B. DU BOIS: A BIOGRAPHY. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. $4.50. (A book for children by the known black woman writer. Leslie A Lacy's Cheer the Lonesome Traveler: The Life of W.E.B. Du Bois, 1970, is another biography of Du Bois for children.)

Hansberry, Lorraine. LES BLANCS: THE COLLECTED LAST PLAYS OF LORRAINE HANSBERRY. Edited with critical backgrounds by Robert Nemiroff. Introduction by Julius Lester. New York: Random House. ix; 372 pages. $8.95. (The plays in this book are: Les Blancs produced in 1970 after Lorraine's death; The Drinking Gourd, an original drama written for NBC-TV but never produced; and What Use Are Flowers?, a fable in one act. This about completes publication of Miss Hansberry's writings with the exception of her articles and speeches which remain uncollected. Her other books are A Raisin in the Sun, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, The Movement: Documentary of a Struggle for Equality [text] and To Be Young, Gifted and Black.) 

Haskins, James. A PIECE OF THE POWER: FOUR BLACK MAYORS. New York: Dial Press. $4.95. (A book for children about Charles Evers, Kenneth Gibson, Richard Hatcher and Carl Stokes. Haskins, a black teacher, is the author of Diary of a Harlem School Teacher and Profiles in Black Power. Alfred Duckett's Changing of the Guard: The New Breed of Black Politicians [Coward-McCann] is another children's book similarly about Evers, Julian Bond, Shirley Chisholm and others.)

Hauser, Stuart T. BLACK AND WHITE IDENTITY FORMATION: STUDIES IN THE PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF LOWER SOCIOECONOMIC CLASS ADOLESCENT BOYS. New York: John Wiley and Sons. xv; 160 pages. $9.95. (One of a series of studies of psychological disorders.) 

Heard, Nathan C. TO REACH A DREAM. New York: Dial Press. 212 pages. $5.95. (Heard, the young black author of the novel Howard Street, 1968, and now an assistant professor at Rutgers University, has again in this novel not written about anything important to Black people. Heard, Robert Deane Pharr, 

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RECENT BOOKS           KAISER

Iceberg Slim, Robert H. de Coy, Donald Goines and other black writers are all digging the dirt on Black people for white readers. Can't these writers make money in some other way than this? These authors' works are disgraceful and a slur on their own Black people.)

Heath, G. Louis. RED, BROWN & BLACK DEMANDS FOR BETTER EDUCATION. Philadelphia: Westminister Press. $5.95 (cloth); $3.50 (paper). (A study of the poor education offered Americans Indians, Chicanos and Blacks and of the educational improvements these three groups are demanding.) 

Hixson, Jr., William B. MOORFIELD STOREY AND THE ABOLITIONIST TRADITION. New York: Oxford University Press. $8.75. (A biography of Storey, a white founder and the first president of the NAACP, and his fight against imperialism, war, political oppression and racism.)

Hudson, Theodore R. A LEROI JONES (AMIRI BARAKA) BIBLIOGRAPHY. The Author, 1816 Varnum St., N.E., Washington, D.C. 20018. 18 pages. $2.00 (paper). (This is a brief, 18-page LeRoi Jones bibliography. A more comprehensive Jones bibliography is Letitia Dace's LeRoi Jones: A Checklist of Works By and About Him [196 pages, 1971] listed in "Recent Books," FREEDOMWAYS, 4th quarter 1971.)

Hurst, Jr., Charles G. PASSPORT TO FREEDOM: EDUCATION, HUMANISM & MALCOLM X. Linnet Books, 995 Sherman Ave., Hamden, Conn. 06514. 242 pages. $7.95. (Dr. Hurst is the black president of Malcolm X College in Chicago.)

IMAGES: AN ANTHOLOGY OF BLACK LITERATURE. Curriculum Bulletin, 1971-72 Series, No. 3. Bureau of Curriculum Development, Board of Education of the City of New York. Publications Sales Office, 110 Livingston St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11201. xiii; 240 pages. $3.50 (paper). (A book for young people, students.) 

THE INTEGRATED COOKBOOK OR THE SOUL OF GOOD COOKING BY MARY JACKSON AND LELIA WISHART. Chicago: Johnson Publishing Co. 135 pages. $3.95 (paper). (This seems to be an anthentic soul cookbook based on old soul cookbooks and the know-how of old or seasoned black cooks. There are many soul cookbooks, but this one seems to be among the best. Other recent cookbooks are Mahalia Jackson Cooks Soul [Aurora Publishers, Nashville, Tenn.], Soul Food Cooking-An African Legacy [Macmillan] by Helen Mendes, The Art of African Cooking [Dell Publishing] by Sandy Lesberg and Soul Food Cook Book by Jimmy Lee.)

Johnson, Harry A. MULTIMEDIA MATERIALS FOR AFRO-AMERICAN STUDIES. New York: R. R. Bowker. $19.95.

Johnson, Jesse J. A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF BLACK SERVICEMEN (AIR FORCE (ARMY, NAVY, MARINES) 1619-1970-MISSING PAGES IN UNITED STATES HISTORY. The Author, Hampton, Va. 151 pages. (A similar book of photographs is Donald L. Miller's An Album of Black Americans in the Armed Forces [Franklin Watts] for children. Lt. Col. Johnson is also the black author of Ebony Brass: An Autobiography of Negro Frustration Amid Aspiration.)

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