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RECENT BOOKS
                         
ERNEST KAISER

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

THE AFRO-AMERICAN ARTIST: A SEARCH FOR IDENTITY by Elsa Honig Fine. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. x, 310 pages. (paper). (Elsa Honig Fine of Knoxville College, Knoxville, Tenn., has done a history of Black art to the present, focussing mostly on individual artists. The book is very comprehensive and profusely illustrated, some in color, most in black and white, and dedicated to the late Black art historian and painter James A. Porter.)

AFRO-AMERICAN ARITISTS--A BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY. Boston, Mass.: Boston Public Library. 348 pages. $7.50 (paper) until Sept. 30, 1973; then $10.00 (A badly needed reference book on Black U.S. painters, sculptors and other artists made possible by grants for the two and one-half year project from Howard University, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities. A Dictionary of American Negro Biography is now being edited by Rayford W. Logan and Michael R. Winston for publication in 1975 by Thomas Y. Crowell Co. A comprehensive biographical dictionary of living Black American authors, edited by Ann Allen Shockley and her staff in the Fisk University Library Special Collections, will be published in the fall of 1973.) 

Apple, Arnold. SON OF GUYANA. New York: Oxford University Press. 128 pages. $9.75 (cloth); $3.00 (paper). (The autobiography of Apple who grew up in Guyana. He went to England when he was 28 where he received a diploma in Applied Science and took courses in Writing and Public Speaking.)

Avery, Charles E. BLACK TRACES: A PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY. New York: Carlton Press. $5.00 (Section 1: Black Women; Section 2: Black Men; Section 3: Black Children; Section 4: Graffiti [which Avery defines as the people's bulletin board]. Black photographer Avery has also included his poems.)

Baldwin, James and Nikki Giovanni. A DIALOGUE. Preface by Ida Lewis. Afterword by Orde Coombs. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott. 112 pages. $4.95. (Taped in London on Nov. 4, 1971, for TV program "Soul," this is a book of the two authors' conversations about various Black subjects including the Black family, etc.)

BLACK CULTURE: READING AND WRITING BLACK edited by Gloria M. Simmons and Helene D. Hutchinson under the direction of Henry E. Simmons. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. xix, 328 pages. (paper). (Some of the large headings [with many sub-headings] are the beauty of black, language of soul, psyche of the white, violated self, rage, ideology and black heritage.)

Bland, Randall W. PRIVATE PRESSURE ON PUBLIC LAW: THE LEGAL CAREER OF JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press. $9.95 (cloth); $3.95 (paper).

Blaustein, Arthur I. and Goeffrey Faux. THE STAR-SPANGLED HUSTLE: WHITE POWER AND BLACK CAPITALISM. New York: Doubleday. $7.95. (The authors show that the Nixon Administration's programs for minority enterprise were not real commitments to equal opportunity.)

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