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RECENT BOOKS
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Inventors and Scientists" in The Negro Almanac [Bellwether].)

Holden, Jr., Matthew. THE DIVISIBLE REPUBLIC. New York: Abelard-Schuman. $12.00. (A book about Black and white communities by a black political scientist. Another book by Holden is The White Man's Burden [Chandler Publishing Co., $5.95], a collection of essays.)

Jensen, Arthur R. EDUCABILITY AND GROUP DIFFERENCES. New York: Harper & Row. viii, 407 pages. $10.00. (Another book by the racist educational psychologist Jensen. See note on his Genetics and Education in Freedomways, 1st quarter 1973, p. 88.)

Kaplan, Sidney. THE BLACK PRESENCE IN THE ERA OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1770-1800. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. xii, 258 pages. $15.00 (cloth); $4.95 (paper). (This is the catalog [text and pictures] of the first Bicentennial exhibition which opened July 4, 1973, at the National Portrait Gallery. Three years in the making and organized by Dr. Kaplan, a well-known authority on Black art, literature and history, the exhibition has 250 paintings, broadsides, petitions, poems, letters and other items. Blacks were in the war [10,000 on both sides], in politics, religion, business and in the arts during the Revolutionary period. The catalog is a beautiful book in color and black and white. C. Attucks, Prince Hall, Richard Allen, Absolom Jones, Lemuel Haynes, John Marrant, John Chavis, Peter Williams, James A. Lafayette, B. Banneker, Paul Cuffe, Jean du Sable, James Derham, Phillis Wheatley, Jupiter Hammon, O. Equiano, Lucy Terry Prince, Venture Smith, Amos Fortune and many others are all here. This is the first of three exhibitions which will cover Afro-American history from 1770 to the present. This exhibition was reviewed in the New York Times, July 5, 1973, p. 22, and in Jet, July 26, 1973, pp.8-9.)

Kronus, Sidney. THE BLACK MIDDLE CLASS. Columbus Ohio: Charles E. Merrill Publishing Co. ix, 182 pages. (A smaller study of Black professionals by Fields, Freeman, New York, with a U.S. Dept. of Labor grant has just been revised and republished. Other similar recent books are Jonathan Bramwell's Courage in Crisis: The Black Professional Today [Bobbs-Merrill, 1973] and Eli Ginzberg's The Middle Class Negro in the White Man's World [Columbia University Press, 1967].)

Lynch, Hollis R. THE BLACK URBAN CONDITION: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY, 1866-1971. Introduction by Congressman Charles C. Diggs, Jr. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. xxiii, 469 pages. $12.50. (This book is the first comprehensive account of the changing role of the black man in American cities as seen primarily through his writings from 1866 to the present. The migration changed Blacks from 90% rural to more than 80% urban. Economic victims on the farms, Blacks are still victimized in the cities under capitalism. On the bottom of the economic ladder, they are the hardest hit in a rapacious, brutal system.)

Macebuh, Stanley. JAMES BALDWIN: A CRITICAL STUDY. New York: The Third Press. viii, 194 pages. $6.95. (Macebuh, a Nigerian scholar, traces and analyzes Baldwin's development as a writer and later as a spokesman for Blacks in this first full-length critique. Fern Maria Eckman's The Furious Passage of James Baldwin, 1966, is a biography.)

McKown, Robin. NKRUMAH: A BIOGRAPHY. New York: Doubleday. 181 pages. $4.50. (Robin McKown, a white woman writer of children's books, has

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