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RECENT BOOKS 

ERNEST KAISER

BLACKS IN THE U.S. (also some books about Africa and the Caribbean)

Achebe, Chinua. GIRLS AT WORK AND OTHER STORIES. New York: Doubleday. 129 pages $5.95. (A book of short stories by the outstanding Nigerian writer and author of the novels Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, Arrow of God and A Man of the People.)

Adoff, Arnold (editor). THE POETRY OF BLACK AMERICA: ANTHOLOGY OF THE 20TH CENTURY. Introduction by Gwendolyn Brooks. New York: Harper & Row. xxxi, 552 pages. $12.50. (This collection for young adults. More than 600 poems from Du Bois's poetry to the present.)

Aptheker, Herbert (editor). A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THE NEGRO PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES 1910-1932. Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel Press. xxii, 754 pages. $17.50. (This is vol. 2 of Aptheker's pioneering, well-researched documentary history using only Black sources whose first 942-page volume was published in 1951 when only Blacks and a few whites were interested in Black history. The first volume was published in 1951, 1962 [paper] and in 1969.)

Bakish, David. RICHARD WRIGHT. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. xiv, 114 pages. $5.00. (Another recent book on Wright is Keneth Kinnamon's The Emergence of Richard Wright: A Study in Literature and Society. George E. Kent's Blackness and the Adventure of Western Culture has two essays on Wright and Donald B. Gibson's Five Black Writers has one essay on him. There are also four other earlier books and a pamphlet on Wright. Donald B. Gibson is completing a book on Wright's fiction and Henry F. Winslow is also doing a biography on Wright in the Oxford University Press series. The special issue of New Letters magazine on Richard Wright is being published as a book by the University of Michigan Press with an introduction by the Black scholar Charles T. Davis of Yale University.)

Baldwin, James. ONE DAY, WHEN I WAS LOST: A SCENARIO BASED ON ALEX HALEY'S "THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X." New York: Dial Press. 280 pages. $7.75. (By the famous Black novelist, playwright and essayist.)

Ballard, Allen B. THE EDUCATION OF BLACK FOLK: THE AFRO-AMERICAN STRUGGLE FOR KNOWLEDGE IN WHITE AMERICA. New York: Harper & Row. vi, 173 pages. $6.95. (Black author Ballard is Dean for Academic Development at CCNY. He has a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard. Was formerly director of CCNY SEEK program.)

Barrett, C. Lindsay (Eseoghene). THE CONFLICTING EYE. Broadside Press, 12651 Old Mill Place, Detroit, Mich. 48238. 24 pages. $2.00 (paper). (West Indian writer Barrett also published The State of Black Desire [privately in Paris], Song for Mumu [London]. His radio plays have been produced on Nigerian National Radio. This book is in the Paul Bremen Heritage series of Black poetry. Another in the series is Frank John's Light a Fire.)

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