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Steptoe, John. BIRTHDAY. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston. $5.50. (Step-toe, a black artist, is the author and illustrator of the books Stevie, Uptown and Train Ride for children. Birthday is about a black boy's eighth birthday in a black American farming community. The people's culture here is strongly African with African illustrations.)

Sterling, Philip (editor). THE REAL TEACHERS. New York: Random House. xxii, 441 pages. $8.95. (Here 30 inner-city, Black and white, committed, creative, concerned teachers, masters and beginners, are interviewed in Boston, Cleveland, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Harlem, the Bronx, Detroit, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia. Eugenia Clarke, Inez Smith, Barbara Jackson and many others are here. Many have suffered for their stands with the students and parents and against the system.)

Still, William Grant, Robert B. Haas, Paul H. Slattery, et al. WILLIAM GRANT STILL AND THE FUSION OF CULTURES IN AMERICAN MUSIC. xi, 203 pages. Photographs. Black Sparrow Press, P.O. Box 25603, Los Angeles, Calif. 90625. $10.00 (trade ed.); $20.00 (limited signed ed.). (A book about Still, the dean of Black American composers. Two Orion records of Still's music are also available from Black Sparrow Press.)

Stuckey, Sterling (editor). THE IDEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF BLACK NATIONALISM. Boston; Beacon Press. $8.95. (A documentary history edited by the well-known Black historian and writer. Negro Social and Political Thought, 1850-1920: Representative Texts [1966] edited by Howard Brotz has sections on political nationalism and cultural nationalism. A general documentary is Black Nationalism in America [1970] edited by John H. Bracey, Jr., August Meier and Elliott Rudwick.)

Taber, Gladys. MY OWN COOK BOOK. Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott. 312 pages. $7.95.

Takaki, Ronald T. VIOLENCE IN THE BLACK AMERICAN IMAGINATION. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 348 pages. $6.95. (This is is a volume in the Putnam New Perspectives on Black America series edited by Herbert Hill. It deals with F. Douglass, W. W. Brown and Martin R. Delany and reprints for the first time Douglass's 1853 essay "The Heroic Slave." Another book in this series is Stanford M. Lyman's The Black American in Sociological Thought: The Failure of Social Science which is critical of Myrdal's An American Dilemma and the Chicago school of sociology's treatment of Blacks.)

Thomas, Piri. SAVIOR, SAVIOR, HOLD MY HAND. New York: Doubleday. 365 pages. $7.95. (This book continues the autobiography of Thomas, a New York City Puerto Rican, begun in his first book Down These Mean Streets, 1967.)

Thornbrough, Emma Lou (editor). BLACK RECONSTRUCTIONISTS. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice Hall. viii, 182 pages. $5.95 (cloth); $2.45 (paper). (A volume in the Great Lives Observed series. Emma Thornbrough also edited the Booker T. Washington [1969] volume in this series.)

Toure, Askia Muhammad. SONGHAI! Introduction by John O. Killens. Songhai Press, c/o Tourne, 50 W. 97 St., Apt. 10-U, New York 10025. $3.00. (This book is a selection of black writer Toure's poetry and prose from 1966 to 1971. Toure is in the anthologies of black writing and has been published in many black magazines.)

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