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RECENT BOOKS                                      KAISER
functioning are determined by a government largely under the influence of industry. Despite these destructive pressures which do destroy some Black families, Black families have survived because of strong kinship bonds, strong work orientation, the adaptability of family roles, strong achievement orientation and strong religious orientation. White social scientists do not view the Black family properly or understand it. Dr. Hill's book grew out of a report he made to the 1971 National Urban League Conference. He is the black director of the Urban League's research department in Washington D.C)
Hornsby, Jr., Alton. THE BLACK ALMANAC: FROM INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE (1619-1860) TO THE AGE OF DISILLUSIONMENT (1964-1971). Barron's Educational Series, 113 Crossways Park Drive, Woodbury, N. Y. 11797. xxiv, 212 pages. $2.95 (paper). (Black Professor Hornsby of Morehouse College edited In the Cage: Eyewitness Accounts of the Freed Negro in Southern Society 1877-1929 [1971]. The material, listed chronologically under ten headings, consists of biographical data, events, laws, court decisions, programs, manifestos and data on institutions. The selected bibliography updates J. H. Franklin's From Slavery to Freedom [1967] but it omits a lot of important material including that on Du Bois, FREEDOMWAYS articles and other things. The comments are on the cautious, conservative side. Some pretty bad books are listed with no warning comment. Abram Kardiner and L. Ovesey's terrible The Mark of Oppression: A Phychosocial Study of the American Negro [1951], that even psychiatrist Robert Coles says he has turned away from, is called a classic.)

Howard, Vanessa. A SCREAMING WHISPER. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 57 pages. $4.95. (A book of 44 poems for ages 12-up. The author is a 17-year old black woman whose poetry has been published in four anthologies.)

Hudson, Hosea. BLACK WORKER IN THE DEEP SOUTH: A PERSONAL RECORD. Introduction by Rev. Ralph David Abernathy. New York: International Publishers. x, 130 pages. $6.95 (cloth); $1.95 (paper). (Here is the heroic story of an unsung Black sharecropper who became one of the South's greatest union presidents and civil rights leaders in Birmingham, Ala. Hudson Also became a Communist in his work with the Black and white southern workers struggling for life and their rights.)

IT'S NOT THE DISTANCE, IT'S THE NIGGERS: COMMENTS ON THE CONTROVERSY OVER SCHOOL BUSING. NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, 10 Columbus Circle, New York 10019. 44, xxiii pages. $1.00 plus $.24 shipping charges (paper).

Jackson, Bruce (editor). WAKE UP DEAD MAN: AFRO-AMERICAN WORK-SONGS FROM TEXAS PRISON. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. $14.95.

Jacobs, Wilbur R. DISPOSSESSING THE AMERICAN INDIAN: INDIANS AND WHITES ON THE COLONIAL FRONTIER. New York: Scribners. $7.95 (cloth); $3.95 (paper).

Jamal, Hakim A. FROM THE DEAD LEVEL: MALCOLM X AND ME. New York: Random House. 272 pages. $6.95.

Jencks, Christopher, et al. INEQUALITY: A REASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECT OF FAMILY AND SCHOOLING IN AMERICA. New York: Basic Books. $12.50. (This three-year study by an eight-member Harvard research

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