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southern white writer George W. Cable published by Columbia University Press [1959] and Twayne Publishers [1962].)

Coombs, Norman. THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN AMERICA. New York: Twayne Publishers. $6.95. (An overview and synthesis of black history.)

Cutler, John Henry. ED BROOKE: BIOGRAPHY OF A SENATOR. Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs-Merrill. 430 pages. Illus. $12.00. (A biography of the one black U.S. Senator from Mass. Edward W. Brooke is the author of The Challenge of Change: Crisis in Our Two-Party System [1966].)

Daniel, Pete. THE SHADOW OF SLAVERY: PEONAGE IN THE SOUTH, 1901-1969. Urbama: University of Illinois Press. xii, 209 pages. $7.95. (Peonage took the place of slavery and it has been widespread in the South from the Civil War until today.)

David, Jay (editor). BLACK DEFIANCE. New York: William Morrow. $2.45 (paper). (Individual Blacks defying American racism from the 1700's to the present-in autobiography, dramatic accounts and poetry.)

Du Bois, Shirley Graham. GAMAL, ABDEL NASSER: SON OF THE NILE. New York: The Third Press: Viking Press. $8.95. (A biography of the late Nasser by Mrs. Du Bois who now lives in Cairo, Egypt, and was a close friend of Nasser. Her last book was His day is Marching On: A memoir of W. E. B. Du Bois [J.B, Lippincott, $6.95, 1971].)

Dundes, Alan (editor). MOTHER WIT FORM THE LAUGHING BARREL: READINGS IN THE INTERCEPTION OF AFRO-AMERICAN FOLKLORE. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall. xiv, 673 pages. $12.95 (cloth); $7.95 (paper). (This big book has all of the black and white writers on black folklore under such headings as folk & lore, on origins, folk speech, verbal art, folk belief, folk music, folk narrative and folk humor.)

Dymally, Mervyn M. (editor). THE BLACK POLITICIAN: HIS STRUGGLE FOR POWER. Boston: Duxbury Press. 144 pages. (Contributors: Julian Bond, Percy Sutton, Carl Stokes, Richard Hatcher, Charles Evers, Adam Powell, Julius Hobson, etc. Dymally is a black California state senator.)

Feagin, Joe R. and Harlan Hahn. GHETTO REVOLTS: THE POLITICS OF VIOLENCE IN AMERICAN CITIES. New York: Macmillan. xiii, 338 pages. $8.95. (Feagin and Hahn's thesis here that the black ghetto revolts of the 1960's are a continuation of the historical American riots is too pat and has little if any validity. The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorder's view of the black rioting as mostly an expression of rage against white racism is closer to the mark. The 1863 anti-draft riots in New York City were directed against Blacks. Black oppression is so different and so much more severe being crudely racial as well as socio-economic that the Black's situation cannot be compared with that of whites.)

THE FLEISCHMANN REPORT ON THE QUALITY, COST AND FINANCING OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION IN NEW YORK STATE, Volume I. New York: Viking Press. xv, 494 pages. $14.95 (cloth); $6.95 (paper). (Volume I of the three-volumes report of the New York State Commission headed by Manly Fleischmann says that equal educational opportunity must become a reality in the 1970's. In its chapter on racial and ethnic integration, the report documents increasing segregation in the North and calls for busing to reverse this trend. In summary, a progressive report whose recommendations should be implemented. Volumes II and III on curriculum,

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