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of management and workers in industry. The book shows that preferential treatment for black workers only makes for more equality between black and white workers and is not unfair to white workers.)

Quarles, Benjamin (editor). BLACKS ON JOHN BROWN. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 180 pages. $6.95. (24 selections on John Brown from William Wells Brown and Frederick Douglass to Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Lerone Bennett and Malcolm X. John Brown, a white abolitionist, gave his life for the freedom of Blacks held in chattel slavery. Most white historians castigate and deride John Brown as a fanatic and maniac but Black writers all call him hero. Quarles is the Black historian who has authored many books.)

RACE AND INTELLIGENCE: THE FALLACIES BEHIND THE RACE-IQ CONTROVERSY edited by Ken Richardson, David Spears and Martin Richards. Baltimore, Md.: Penguin Books Inc. 205 pages. $1.45 (paper). (Here are essays in the fields of psychology, biology and sociology which refute Arthur Jensen, H. J. Eysenck, R. Herrnstein and the others.)

Reed, Ishmael. MUMBO JUMBO. New York: Doubleday. 223 pages. $6.95. (This is young Black writer Reed's third novel and fourth book. His other novels are The Free-Lance Pallbearers [1967] and Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down [1969]. He edited 19 Necromancers from Now: An Anthology of Original American Writing for the 1970's [1970]. Reed's books are such puzzling jumbles, they don't make sense to most people. After the complex mixtures are sorted out, there isn't much of value in the books. He should write an understandable, believable novel about black life and thus use his talent more constructively.)

Reid, Inez Smith. "TOGETHER" BLACK WOMEN. New York: Emerson Hall Publishers. 383 pages. $8.95 (cloth); $2.50 (paper). (Inez Smith Reid is a Black woman teacher and writer. Other books on Black women are Joyce Ladner's Tomorrow's Tomorrow: The Black Woman, Tomorrow's Woman [National Council of Negro Women], Gerda Lerner's Black Women in White America: A Documentary History, Mel Watkins and Jay David's To Be a Black Woman: Portraits in Fact and Fiction and Black Woman [photos by Chester Higgins, Jr.; text by Harold McDougall].)

Roberts, John Storm. BLACK MUSIC OF TWO WORLDS. New York: Praeger Publishers. 296 pages. $10.00. (Roberts, the editor of Africa Report magazine, covers black music from the Yoruba-language cult music still found in Brazil to U.S. soul singers today; Latin American bands and West Indian calypso, etc. Has illustrations, a bibliography and a discography.)

Robinson, Jackie and Alfred Duckett. I NEVER HAD IT MADE. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 287 pages $7.95. (This is the last of several autobiographical books by Jackie Robinson, the famous black baseball star who died in October 1972. Robinson also wrote one or two non-autobiographical books and there are many books about him written by others. Other recent black sports books are Stand Up for Something: The Spencer Haywood Story [Grosset & Dunlap] by Bill Libby and Spencer Haywood and From Lew Alcindor to Kareem Abdul Jabbar [Lothrop, Lee and Shepard] [for children] by the black writer James Haskins.)

Rogler, Lloyd H. MIGRANT IN THE CITY: THE LIFE OF A PUERTO RICAN ACTION GROUP. New York: Basic Books. $8.95. (Prof. Rogler, a

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