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FREEDOMWAYS      FOURTH QUARTER 1972
team with a half million dollar Carnegie Corporation grant, like the Arthur R. Jensen article in 1969, is getting a big play in the newspapers and magazines. This is because this book says that schools cannot help the poor and black to advance intellectually or economically. This thesis is ridiculous but the people in power want to push this idea just as they pushed Jensen's thesis that I.Q.'s and scholastic achievement cannot be changed for the poor and black. Jencks's The Academic Revolution [1968-with David Reisman] had a shallow, wrong-headed attack on black colleges. Jencks attacked the Jensen thesis in 1969. Now he is saying with Jensen that we cannot raise the I.Q.'s and scholastic achievement of the poor and black. But Jencks goes further and also says that therefore schooling leads to no economic advancement for the poor and Blacks, Nothing can be done for them. This inane study is a waste of foundation money.)
Katzman, David M. BEFORE THE GHETTO: BLACK DETROIT IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 320 pages. $10.00. (This is the first volume of a new series, Blacks in the New World, edited by August Meier, professor of history at Kent State University and author and editor of many books about Black history and thought. Other volumes in this series are in preparation.)
Kearns, Francis E. (editor). BLACK IDENTITY: A THEMATIC READER. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Wilson. xiii, 359 pages. (A collection or anthology of short stories, poems, a short play and personal essays by Blacks and whites.)
Kemp, Arnold. EAT OF ME: I AM THE SAVIOR. New York: William Morrow. $6.95. (This is a first novel by a black ex-convict about the people of Harlem.)
Kimball, Penn. THE DISCONNECTED. New York: Columbia University Press. x, 317 pages. $10.00 (cloth); $2.95 (paper). (A book about the non-voting of Blacks, Puerto Ricans, Mexican-Americans and Indians due to many restraints which imprison them. Recommends a universal voter enrollment system run by the government to take registration responsibility off the citizen.)
Kinnamon, Keneth. THE EMERGENCE OF RICHARD WRIGHT: A STUDY IN LITERATURE AND SOCIETY. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 224 pages. $7.50. (Another book on Wright. This one deals with Wright's life and writing from his birth in 1908 in Mississippi to the publication of his novel Native Son in 1940. Kinnamon is a black associate professor of English at the University of Illinois. Henry F. Winslow, a black critic, is also doing a book on Wright-in the Oxford University Press series.)
Kochman, Thomas (editor). RAPPIN' AND STYLIN' OUT: COMMUNICATION IN URBAN BLACK AMERICA. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 464 pages. $12.50 (Many articles, some original, others reprinted, on the communicative habits and expressive life-style of Black urban adults. See also Roger D. Abraham's "Rapping and Capping: Black Talk as Art" in Black America [1970] edited by John F. Szwed.)
Lane, Ann J. THE BROWNSVILLE AFFAIR: NATIONAL CRISIS AND BLACK REACTION. Port Washington, N. Y.: Kennikat Press. 184 pages. $10.95. (This is the second recent book on the Brownsville, Texas, affair of 1906 in which 167 black soldiers were cruelly and unjustly discharged without honor by Pres. Theodore Roosevelt. The other recent book is John D. Weaver's The Brownsville Raid [Norton]. The U.S. Defense Dept. cleared
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