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RECENT BOOKS         KAISER

An Introduction to Sociology, also by Hodges. Contains writings from C. Wright Mills, Clyde Kluckhohn, "The Pilgrimage of Malcolm X" by I.F. Stone, "What Chance for Black Power?" by Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward, Richard Hatcher's "Age of a New Humanity" [Freedomways].)

Hyman, Harold M. A MORE PERFECT UNION: THE IMPACT OF THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION ON THE CONSTITUTION. New York: A.A. Knopf. $15.00.

Jacobs, Jr., Andrew. THE POWELL AFFAIR: FREEDOM MINUS ONE. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. 256 pages. $8.50. (A book about the unseating and censuring of Congressman Adam C. Powell, Jr., in Mar.-Apr. 1967. The author, a congressman from Indiana, served on the nine-member Select Committee appointed to consider seating Powell.)

Jacobs, William J. HANNIBAL: AN AFRICAN HERO. New York: McGraw-Hill. $4.50. (A Book for children about the great military genius who fought the Romans.)

Jones, Jymi. THE FRUIT THEORY. Philadelphia: Dorrance and Co. 86 pages. $3.95. (A book of poems by a Black Philadelphia writer. He is the author of Guerilla Warfare in Philly [poetry] and editor of the poetry anthology A Vision of Blackness.)

Kickingbird, Kirke and Karen Ducheneaux. ONE HUNDRED MILLION ACRES. Foreword by Vine Deloria, Jr. New York: Macmillan. $6.95. (This is a study of how one hundred million acres of Indian lands were stolen from the Indians and what the legal status of native Indian lands is today. Also how the U.S. government worked to break down the tribal organizations. Other recent books about Indians are Wendell H. Oswalt's This Land Was Theirs: A Study of the North American Indian [2nd edition, John Wiley and Sons] and Patrick D. Smith's Forever Island [Norton] about an aged Seminole's fight against a land development corporation. 

Kimball, Robert and William Bolcom. REMINISCING WITH SISSLE AND BLAKE. New York: Viking Press. $12.95. (A profusely illustrated biography of Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake, the legendary veteran creators-performers of the Broadway musical of 1921 Shuffle Along. Blake, a pianist, wrote rag time tunes, Memories of You, etc. Sissle was a singer and lyricist. The book has over 250 photographs of shows, sheet music, letters, posters and programs. A fine salute to two very famous Black musicians.)

THE KNAPP COMMISSION REPORT ON POLICE CORRUPTION. New York: George Braziller. 264 pages. $8.95 (cloth); $3.95 (paper). (The corruption of the New York City Police Department revealed here includes payoffs to police by organized crime for protection, kidnapping, murder, financing heroin transactions and assisting criminals in every way for large sums of money especially in the City's black ghettos. A sizable majority of the police force does these things. This report really exposes the New York City Police Department.)

Kromer, Helen. THE AMISTAD REVOLT, 1839: THE SLAVE UPRISING ABOARD THE SPANISH SCHOONER. New York: Franklin Watts. 86 pages. $3.95. (For grades 7 and up.)

Ladner, Joyce A. (editor). THE DEATH OF WHITE SOCIOLOGY. New York: Random House. xxviii, 476 pages. $10.00 (cloth); $2.45 (paper). (Here are essays by black social scientists, writers and scholars. If the book's title means

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