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Book Reviews Reviewed by

Snake-Back Solos: Selected Poems, 1969-1977....Tom Dent 104
Chances Are Few

Racism and National Consciousness....Charles Roach 108

Cornrows......................Nieda Spigner 109

A Young Genius in Old Egypt......Claudia Zaslavsky 110

Black Mathematicians and Their Words.......Belinda Daniels 112

Recent Books...............................113
Ernest Kaiser

Among Our Contributors

Alice Walker, a Contributing Editor of FREEDOMWAYS, is novelist, essayist and poet. Her latest books are a collection of poems, Good Night Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning and (editor) A Zora Neale Hurston Reader, I Love Myself When I Am Laughing...And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive.

Barry D. Amis has published poetry in Obsidian, Black World and other publications. During 1978-79, he was a Fulbright professor of American Literature at the University of Niamey in Niger where his poem "African Genesis" was written.

Tom Dent writes poetry, drama and essays. His book reviews appear frequently in this magazine.

Geraldine L. Wilson, a New York teacher, is a specialist in early childhood education. She is completing research in the history of children in the slave community.

Carole E. Gregory, essayist and poet, is a lecturer on the Black Family at York College of the City University of New York in Queens, N.Y.

Nieda Spigner has written for FREEDOMWAYS and other publications. She is now at work on a collection of short stories.

Claudia Zaslavsky is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Education, College of New Rochelle. She is author of Africa Counts: Number and Pattern in African Culture, Preparing Young Children for Math and the forthcoming children's book Count of Your Fingers African Style (Crowell).

Belinda Daniels is a reference librarian at Winston-Salem State University, North Carolina.

Charles C. Roach, a published poet, is a lawyer in civil rights practice in Toronto, Canada. He has been involved in cases in defense of prisoners' rights, native peoples and in the field of immigration and citizenship.
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Correction
In the previous issue (First Quarter, 1980), the name of book reviewer Kenneth E. Peeples, Jr., was misspelled. The editors regret the error.