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FREEDOMWAYS           FOURTH QUARTER 1972

importance in black life is pointed up in these stories. Ed Bullins, Melvin Van Peebles and other black writers are probably worse than Toni Bambara in viciously stereotyping Blacks. Black writer John O. Killens blew the whistle on this kind of black writing in his essay "The Crisis in Black Writing" [Sepia, March 1972].)

Barksdale, Richard K. and Keneth Kinnamon (editors). BLACK WRITERS OF AMERICA: A COMPREHENSIVE ANTHOLOGY. New York: Macmillan. 917 pages. $11.95. (Two black editors have produced a big anthology textbook. Another big anthology textbook is Cavalcade: Negro American Writing from 1760 to the Present [1971, Houghton Mifflin] edited by Arthur P. Davis and Saunders Redding, two black writers. Other anthologies are Black Culture: Reading and Writing Black edited by Gloria Simmons; Afro-American Literature: An Introduction edited by Robert Hayden, David J. Burrows and Frederick R. Lapides; and Modern Black Stories edited by Martin Mirer [Barron's Educational Series, Woodbury, N.Y.].)

Beckham, Barry. RUNNER MACK. New York: William Morrow. 213 pages. $6.95. (This is black writer Beckham's second novel. His first is My Main Mother, 1969.)

THE BEST OF 40 ACRES POETRY. Horizon Six, P.O. Box 21, New York 10027. 47 pages. $3.75 (paper). (Here are 112 poems selected from those that have appeared in the newspaper 40 Acres and a Mule published monthly by Harlem youths for five years and since 1971 sponsored by the New York Urban League.) 
Billingsley, Andrew and Jeanne M. Giovannoni. CHILDREN OF THE STORM: BLACK CHILDREN AND AMERICAN CHILD WELFARE. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 263 pages. $8.50 (cloth); $3.95 (paper). (The authors, Billingsley, Black, and Giovannoni, white, say that the system of American child welfare services is failing Black children due to persistent racism and propose radical reforms of the system. Billingsley is the author of Black Families in White America, 1968.)

BLACK SELF-CONCEPT: IMPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCE edited by James A. Banks and Jean D. Grambs. New York: McGraw-Hill. xx, 234 pages. $5.95 (cloth); $3.95 (paper). (This book is an attempt to bring up to date the book Negro Self-Concept published in 1965. Here are eight essays by Banks, Grambs, Alvin Poussaint and Carolyn Atkinson, Nancy L. Arnez, Barbara A. Sizemore and others. These essays by Blacks deal with racial prejudice, the Black Revolution, Black youth, politics, literature, institutional racism, social science, education, etc.)

Blackburn, Sara (editor). WHITE JUSTICE. Foreword by Haywood Burns. New York: Harper Colophon Books. $2.75 (paper). (Here are transcripts of Black Panther Party trials that reveal legal violence and racism.) 

Blassingame, John W. THE SLAVE COMMUNITY: PLANTATION LIFE IN THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH. New York: Oxford University Press. xv, 262 pages. $7.95. (Blassingame, a Black professor, edited New Perspectives on Black Studies [1971] and is the assistant editor with Louis R. Harlan of volume one of The Booker T. Washington Papers [1972].)

Bogus, Diane. I'M OFF TO SEE THE GODDAMN WIZARD, ALRIGHT! The Author, 7902 South Perry, Chicago, Ill. 45 pages. $2.50.

Bond, Horace Mann. BLACK AMERICAN SCHOLARS: A STUDY OF THEIR 

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