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due to genetic inadequacy. This book shows clearly that black nationalism, pan-Africanism and cooperative economics [small black businesses] are mostly idealistic, exhortatory rhetoric. They offer no solutions to the problems of a capitalist economic system such as jobs, housing and political power which Black people need so badly. There is no philosophical system or any real analysis of society in black nationalism and pan-Africanism other than a simple black value system. Lee mentions briefly the big corporations sucking the blood of the poor but to him all whites [rich and poor] are the Blacks' enemies. This is ridiculous in 1973. Lee should know better than this by now after all the reading he says he has done. All whites are not our enemies and all Blacks are not with us in our struggle.)
McCann, Donnarae and Gloria Woodward (editors). THE BLACK AMERICAN IN BOOKS FOR CHILDREN: READINGS IN RACISM. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. vii, 223 pages. $6.50. (Here are 25 articles from 11 journals by Julius Lester, Augusta Baker, Dorothy Sterling, Bradford Chambers, Joseph Okpaku and others. These articles point up racist attitudes in almost 100 children's books, past and present, discuss the black perspective, esthetic criteria and trends in the publishing industry. This book and Starting Out Right [listed in FREEDOMWAYS, 4th quarter 1972, p. 358] go a long way in dealing with racism against Black in children's books.)
Mcnair, Barbara and Stephen Lewis. THE COMPLETE BOOK OF BEAUTY FOR THE BLACK WOMAN. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall. Illus. $6.95. (The author is the famous black woman singer and actress. Two other recent beauty books are by black woman actress Denise Nicholas and a white author both published by Lancer Books, New York.)
Major, Clarence. THE COTTON CLUB. Detroit: Broadside Press. 23 pages. $1.25 (paper). (Another book of poetry by Major, the black author or editor of many books. Other recent Broadside Press publications are the young black woman Mae Jackson's Can I Poet With You and Singing Sadness Happy: Poems by Lyn.)
Marcus, Sheldon and Philip D. Vairo (editors). URBAN EDUCATION: CRISIS OR OPPORTUNITY? Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. vii, 157 pages. $5.00. (Here are 14 papers from a summer institute in urban education at Fordham University in 1970 and 1971. There are black and white contributors: John Holt, Rhody McCoy, Preston Wilcox, Percy Sutton, James Farmer, Herman Badillo, the two editors of this book, etc.)
Marszalek, Jr., F. John. COURT-MARTIAL: A BLACK MAN IN AMERICA. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. xv, 320 pages, $8.95. (This is an account of the 1881 court martial of Johnson Whittaker, the third black cadet at West Point. Completely ostracized for three years like the two black cadets before him, he was found tied to his bed, unconscious and bleeding severely. Whittaker was tried and found guilty of beating himself to discredit the white cadets!)
Marx, Karl and Frederick Engels. ON COLONIALISM: ARTICLES FROM THE "NEW YORK TRIBUNE" AND OTHER WRITINGS. New York:  International Publishers. 385 pages. $7.50 (cloth); $2.65 (paper). (These Tribune articles of the 1850's deal with colonial rule and intervention by capitalist countries in India, China, Burma, Persia, Afghanistan, Algeria and Ireland

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