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FREEDOMWAYS      SECOND QUARTER 1973

Year Book 1973 has a section "Traditional Africa in a Modern World" [pp.92-137] with beautiful photographs and text by Philip Curtin, the white Africanist. "The Study of Africa's History," a short bibliographical essay included here by the African Sylvanus J.S. Cookey of UCLA, is completely uncritical of the early and current books on African history by white historians.)

Harrison, Paul Carter. THE DRAMA OF NOMMO. New York: Grove Press. xxiv, 245 pages. $6.95 (cloth); $2.45 (Evergreen paperback). (Here is an attempt to identify an African esthetic within the Black American experience in terms of social life, sex, family, dress, music, literature, drama, church, etc. But inflated rhetoric and the idea that Blacks and whites can never get together won't do the trick. Here Harrison champions all of the Black stereotypes in the writings of Melvin Van Peebles Ed Bullins, et al. It's all phony and a fake. The author's attempt to make U.S. Blacks completely African after 350 years of social conditioning here with whites and Indians is completely unsociological, mystical and ludicrous. Black Professor Harrison is currently at the University of Massachusetts. If American Blacks could just be delivered from some of their spurious Black spokesmen and bogus interpreters, they would soon learn how to fight their real enemies effectively.)

Harrison-Ross, Phyllis and Barbara Wyden. THE BLACK CHILD. Peter H. Wyden, Inc./Publisher, 750 Third Ave., New York 10017. $7.95. (Harrison-Ross, a Black psychiatrist, and Barbara Wyden, a white editor, show that being Black complicates problems of love, sex, self-esteem, work, discipline, drugs and all phases of a black child's growing up. The book helps Black and white parents to see clearly the racism so that they can help black and white children overcome the emotional handicaps produced by racism.)

Haskins, Jim (editor). BLACK MANIFESTO FOR EDUCATION. Foreword by Mario D. Fantini, New York: William Morrow. xvi, 201 pages. $7.95. (Contributors to this volume include Kenneth B. Clark, John Henrik Clarke and Isaiah E. Robinson.)

Haskins, Jim. JOKES FROM BLACK FOLKS. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday. 116 pages. $3.95. (Haskins is also the Black author of Diary of a Harlem Schoolteacher, Profiles in Black Power and Religions).

Herbers, John. THE BLACK DILEMMA. New York: John Day Co. xi, 116 pages. $5.95 (cloth); $1.95 (paper). (Herbers, a New York Times reporter, wrote The Lost Priority, a history of the civil rights movement, in 1965.)

Herrnstein, R. J. I.Q. IN THE MERITOCRACY. Boston Mass.: Little Brown. $7.95 (This book began with Harvard Professor Herrnstein's very long, infamous article "I.Q." in The Atlantic Monthly [Sept. 1971]. In his article and in this book he follows up and supports the racist argument that genetics determines all intelligence, not the social environment so that Blacks with a poor environment come out inferior. In my review of Arthur R. Jensen's Genetics and Education [Freedomways, 1st quarter 1973, p.88], I list many of the books and articles that have been written to show how false the genetic explanation of intelligence really is.)

Hodges, Jr., Harold M. (editor). CONFLICT AND CONSENSUS: READINGS TOWARD A SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE. New York: Harper & Row. xi, 570 pages. $5.00 (paper). (A companion volume to Conflict and Consensus:

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